LAHORE: Qamar Aftab has been was elected Chairman of the Pakistan Hosiery Manufacturers & Exporters Association, while Zia ur Rehman Chaudhry has been elected as Senior Vice Chairman and Abdul Hameed as Vice Chairmen.
The results of elections were announced in the annual general meeting of the association held in Sialkot. The newly-elected members of Central Executive Committee include Shahzad Saleem Asghar, Syed Hassan Masood Zaidi, Dr Khurram Tariq, Shahid Ahmed Sheikh, and Faisal Mehboob Sheikh. Members elected on Zonal Committee include Adil Butt, Mohammad Zubair Sheikh, Shafique Butt, Tahir Mehmood, Kashif Zia, and Mohammad Younus Sony. Newly-elected office-bearers will resume their office from 1st October 2015.
Newly-elected Chairman Qamar Aftab of Image Garments (Pvt) Ltd, Faisalabad, addressing on the occasion, said that knitwear export industry is the largest employment providing sector of the economy, besides being the leading export earning sector. He said that the export of knitted garment in the year 2014-2015 was US $ 2.4 billion which is higher than last year in spite of all adverse factors. He explained that constraints being confronted by the industry due to war like situation being faced by Pakistan over the last so many years is a major setback to our industry otherwise we could have done lot more than this.
