The petitioner has made the Director General Trade Organizations (DGTO), Secretary General APTMA, Election Commission of APTMA, APTMA KP Zone and Shehzad Ayub, a candidate for the top slot of APTMA. Barrister Syed Mudassir Amir, council of the petitioner in his arguments before the bench told that a candidate Shehzad Ayub, a defaulter of the annual subscription fee submitted his nomination forms at Punjab office in violation of the Memorandum and Articles of Association of APTMA.
Furthermore, the counsel also told the court about the closure of his mills since last three years and the machineries installed in his mills has already been sold and shifted from the premises. Furthermore, SNGPL has already disconnected the gas supply to the concerned Zainab Textile Mills Limited.
The counsel for the petitioner also argued that Punjab Zone of APTMA also violated the Memorandum and Articles of Association and as well as Trade Organizations Rules 2013 by creating two additional polling stations at Multan and Faisalabad wherein the number of registered voters is less than the mandatory 50 members just one day before the election.
He told the court that the central chairman of APTMA is elected on rotation basis of 3:2:1 formula (three terms for Punjab, two for Sindh Balochistan and one for KP) and this year the term is of KP region. The Counsel for Shehzad Ayub, one of the respondents pleaded for granting stay only in the announcement of the result and not the whole election process. However, the court did not agreed with his contentions and issued stay order to stop the whole election proceedings.
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