The local traders in a meeting chaired by Tahir Abbasi, Acting President, Islamabad Chamber of Commerce & Industry have called upon the parliament to pass the amended bill of rent control act for Islamabad to resolve this longstanding issue
Islamabad (Pakistan Point News / Online - 27th November, 2019) The local traders in a meeting chaired by Tahir Abbasi, Acting President, Islamabad Chamber of Commerce & Industry have called upon the parliament to pass the amended bill of rent control act for Islamabad to resolve this longstanding issue. Saifur Rahman Khan Vice President ICCI, Muhammad EjazAbbasi Vice President FPCCI, Zubair A. Malik former President FPCCI and Chairman Founder Group, Malik Najeeb President Traders Welfare Association Gulberg, Khalid Chaudhry, Muhammad Naveed Malik, Faizan Ahmed, Saeed Ahmed Bhatti, ZulqarnainAbbasi and others were in the meeting.
Tahir Abbasi said that for the last over 30 years, local traders have been demanding for promulgation of a balanced rent control act in Islamabad to ensure equal protection of the rights of tenants and owners, but their demand could not be met as yet. He said that previous governments had presented amended bill of rent control act in national assembly, but could not get it passed. He said that current Federal Minister for Planning & Development Asad Umar has also presented an amended bill of rent control law in the national assembly which has been passed by the relevant standing committee.
He urged that the said bill should be presented in the next session of national assembly, which should be passed without further delay to meet the long overdue demand of local traders.Muhammad EjazAbbasi, Vice President FPCCI said that the business community was facing many problems in running business activities and stressed that government should focus on creating conducive environment for them that would help in early revival of the economy as well. He said that traders were feeling insecure due to absence of rent control act in Islamabad and hoped that the current government would soon resolve this issue.
