ISLAMABAD: A delegation of Traders Welfare Association, G-9 Markaz, Islamabad led by its Secretary General Raja Zulfiqar visited Islamabad Chamber of Commerce & Industry and held a meeting with Sheikh Amir Waheed President, Muhammad Naveed Malik Senior Vice President and Nisar Mirza Vice President ICCI to highlight the issues of their market. Muhammad Ejaz Abbasi Chairman CDA Committee of ICCI, Khalid Chaudhry and others were also present at the occasion.
Addressing the delegation, Sheikh Amir Waheed, President, Islamabad Chamber of Commerce & Industry strongly protested against the insulting behavior of Member Planning CDA. He said business community was playing key role in the development of local economy but CDA high ups were paying no attention to resolve their issues. He said after the election of MCI, behavior of CDA officers have become quite insulting towards the business community which was not tolerable. He said due to this approach of CDA, problems of trade and industry were increasing. He said the appointment of foreign nationality holders as officers in CDA has badly affected its performance.
Sheikh Amir Waheed said that prime minister should take notice of this situation and issue strong instructions to CDA for urgent resolution of key issues of the business community. He said if issues of markets were not resolved soon, traders would be forced to carve out a new strategy for protection of their rights. He called upon the Acting Chairman CDA to immediately withdraw the non-conforming use notices to the markets and take strong action against those CDA officers who were responsible for non-conforming use issue.
Muhammad Naveed Malik Senior Vice President, Nisar Mirza Vice President ICCI and Muhammad Ejaz Abbasi, Chairman ICCI CDA Committee said that for the last many years, CDA was ignoring markets for development due to which condition of markets have deteriorated. They said the foreign nationality holder officers in CDA had no interest in resolving problems and urged that such officers should be replaced with local officers to address issues of business community.
Raja Zulfiqar, Secretary General, Traders Welfare Association, G-9 Markaz, Islamabad said that issuance of non-conforming use notices was creating harassment in the traders. He said CDA was forcing the business community to go for protest. He warned that if non-conforming use notices were not taken back, traders would hold a sit-in in front of CDA Headquarters and CDA Management would be responsible for all consequences.
