RECORDER REPORT

KARACHI: Shamim Ahmed Firpo, Asif Nisar and Younus Sommro are likely to be the next President, Senior Vice President and Vice President of Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) for the year 2016-17, respectively.

Sources said that leader of Businessmen Group (BMG) Group and former president KCCI, Siraj Kassam Teli has nominated them for these posts.

The election of President Senior Vice President and Vice President will be held on September 26, 2016 and annual general meeting would be held on September 30, 2016.

Election committee of the chamber received a total of 61 nomination papers against 15 vacant seats out of which 34 were rejected on different reasons.

Nomination papers of Shamim Ahmed Firpo, Asif Nisar, Younus Sommro, Mohammad Shoaib, Ali Raza Shaikh, M Rehan Hanif, Sohail Amin, Maj Munir Ahmed (retd), Ahmed Azeem Alavi, Mohammd Hanif Ayoob, Danish Iqbal, Abdul Rehaman Naqvi, Mansoor Ahmed, Safdar Ali, Shammsul Islam Khan, Muhammad Idrees, Abdul Nasir Rangoonwala, Naveed Farooki, Rizwan Abdul Razzak, Akhter Jameel Rehmani, Abdul Basit Haji Abdul Razzak, Mohammad Rafi, Haji Ahmed and Yasir Younus Orawala were accepted.