LAHORE: The Pakistan Industrial and Trade Association Front (PIAF)-Founders Alliance on Monday made a clean sweep by winning all the seven seats of Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) Corporate Class for the year 2018-19.
As many as 1,423 votes were cast of the total 3,114, while 15 votes were rejected due to technical reasons. PIAF-Founder Alliance received 822 panel votes while the Businessmen Front managed to get 302 panel votes.
The PIAF-Founders Alliance candidates Dr Muhammad Arshad got 976 votes, Almas Hyder 1,023, Naveedullah Khan 972, Aqib Asif 979, Khalid Usman 941, Waqar Ahmed 966 and Khawaja Shahzad Nasir got 962 votes. Businessmen Front candidates Asif Khan got 427, Tahir Malik 421, Khalid Naeem 409, Atif Amin 433, Muhammad Hussain 401, Rashid Hameed Mehr got 391 votes and Shahzad Rasheed Anjum got 356 votes respectively.
Mian Muzaffar Ali, Sohail Lashari and Haroon Shafiq Chaudhry were the Elections Commissioners on the occasion. In the second phase, polling for eight seats of Associate Class will be held on September 25 (tomorrow) where 9,783 voters will exercise their voting rights. The final results will be announced on September 29 in the scheduled Annual General Meeting.
