The newly elected vice president of the Federation of Pakistan Chamber of Commerce & Industry (FPCCI), Faiz Rasool Khan, has said that very soon a liaison office of the Federation would be established in Peshawar to resolve the problems confronting the business community of the province. Talking to newsmen after returning from the FPCCI polls in Karachi, he pledged to play an active role in the struggle for the resolution of the problems of the local business community. He said that he would pay full attention to the resolution of the problems of Gadoon Amazai Industrial Estate and Risalpur Export Processing Zone.

Those who were accompanying Faiz Rasool Khan included the newly-elected members of the managing committee of the FPCCI, Riaz, Engineer Abdul Waheed, Fayyaz Ali and Akbar Khan.

On arrival at Peshawar airport, Faiz Rasool Khan was accorded a warm welcome by the former president of Sarhad Chamber of Commerce & Industry (SCCI) Haji Haleem Jan, Malik Mehr Elahi, Haji Ibrahim, Haji Iqbal and others.

He said that during last two years, the NWFP was having no particular representation on the apex trade body of the country, resulting in the enormous increase in the problems of the business community of the province. However, he said that now the real representatives of the business community of the province have been elected to the body and would leave no stone unturned in the resolution of the problems.

Faiz Rasool Khan said that during last seven months the export of the country had reached 9.2 billion dollars and the success of the Expo Karachi would generate export orders of billions of rupees.

Regarding the resolution of the problems of the business community of the province, he said that they would make efforts for the resolution of the problems of Peshawar, Bannu, Swat and Tribal Chambers. Furthermore, he said that the natural resources of gems and mineral would be utilised for the development of the province.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2005