By Rafiq Vayani
DUBAI: One the Pakistan’s known builders and developers Fayyaz Ilyas was elected Chairman of Association of Builders and Developers of Pakistan (ABAD) unanimously for the term of 2020-2021 here on Saturday. Fayyaz Ilyas has served ABAD as Senior Vice Chairman earlier. While Khawaja Muhammad Ayoob, Arif Sheikhani and Eng. Danish Bin Rauf were also elected as Senior Vice Chairman, Vice Chairman and Chairman Southern Region of the organization respectively. Sheraz J. Monnoo was elected as Chairman Northern Region and Kashif Shaikh was elected as Vice Chairman Sub-Region Hyderabad.
The election of new office-bearers of the ABAD was held during the Annual General Meeting of ABAD at ABAD House, Karachi and Lahore simultaneously. The meeting was attended by a large number of members of the Association. The meeting unanimously approved all new members of the Central Executive Committee and Regional Executive Committee from Allied Penal, who were elected unopposed. The new office-bearers of the ABAD will take charge of their offices from 1st October, 2020.
Newly elected Chairman Fayyaz Ilyas, after the election, said that he was grateful to all members of the ABAD for electing new team of the ABAD. He told that he will work tirelessly to resolve problems of members and for the betterment of the ABAD and construction industry without any discrimination.
Newly elected Senior Vice Chairman Khawaja Muhammad Ayoob, Vice Chairman Arif Sheikhani, Chairman Southern Region Eng. Danish Bin Rauf, Chairman Northern Region Sheraz J. Monnoo and Vice Chairman Hyderabad Sub Region Kashif Shaikh also thanked all members for their support and said that they will leave no stone unturned to solve problems of members of ABAD.
Outgoing Chairman ABAD Mohsin Sheikhani said that during his term the ABAD has experienced a number of issues but by the grace of Allah the Almighty we could be able to solve issues of Fixed Tax Regime, timing of building plan approval and status of Industry to construction sector which was neglected since 72 years. The most important thing for members of ABAD was announcement of low cost housing Naya Pakistan Housing Scheme by Prime Minister Imran Khan with a number of reliefs. We will be able to boost the construction industry and provide thousands of jobs apart from providing housing to millions of people from lower strata of the society. I hope new office-bearers will continue their efforts to achieve our goals.
He hoped that the team of ABAD under Chairman Fayyaz Ilyas will work hard for the solution of problems and issues of members of the organization. Not only that but I will standby them always, he added.
Outgoing Senior Vice Chairman Sohail Warind, Vice Chairman Abdul Rehman and Chairman Southern Region Ali Muhammad Ratadia also welcomed new office-bearers and assured them of all out support for running affairs of the ABAD and for the betterment of construction industry.
Earlier, Arif Jeewa, Muhamamd Hassan Bakshi, Asif Sumsum, Muhammad Ayoob, Abdul Kareem Adhia, Aamir Thara, Afzal Chamadia, Ahmed Owias, Ali Jameel, Sadiq Baloch, Nadeem Riaz and Altaf Kantawala were elected as members of Central Executive Committee. Nasir Lakhani, Muhammad Patel, Syed Khursheed Alam, Omar Bin Islam and Tariq Aziz were elected as members of Regional Executive Committee Southern Region and Sheraz J. Mannoo, Khizar Ayub Izhar, Sajid Saeed, Sahir Rasheed, Omar Illahi Sheikh, Mian Muhammad Nauman, Muhammad Pervaiz Chaudhary and Tazeem Ahmed were elected as members of Regional Executive Committee Northern Region. Kashif Shaikh, Eng. Shabbir Memon and Asadullah were elected as members of Regional Executive Committee Sub-Region Hyderabad.
