Muhammad Ahmed Waheed President, Tahir Abbasi Senior Vice President and Saif ur Rehman Khan Vice President, Islamabad Chamber of Commerce & Industry have congratulated Pakistan Kabaddi Team on winning World Cup and added that the whole Pakistani nation was feeling proud on their great victory in the final against India. They expressed these views while addressing a meeting of ICCI Sports Committee that was held under the chair of Zarif Ahmed Khan, Convener, Committee.
Muhammad Ahmed Waheed said that participation of teams of Canada, USA, Australia, India and other countries in Kabaddi World Cup in Pakistan was proof of the fact that Pakistan was now a safe country for sports activities. He said that sports activities played very positive role in promoting business activities and urged that government should focus on organizing tournaments of various sports on regular basis that would help in reviving business and economic activities. He also directed the Convener and members of ICCI Sports Committee to organize events of various sports so that besides serving the cause of business community, Chamber could also play due role in promoting sports activities in the region.
Tahir Abbasi Senior Vice President and Saif ur Rehman Khan Vice President ICCI said that Chamber will support the Islamabad United in PSL tournament. They said that the current government has taken a very bold and good decision by organizing PSL in Pakistan as it would promote soft image of the country and help in reviving business activities as well.
Zarif Ahmed Khan, Convener, ICCI Sports Committee briefed the participants about the roadmap of the Committee to organize various sports events including cricket tournament for special persons. He said that owner of Islamabad United Ali Naqvi, officials and team members would be invited to ICCI and added that Sports Committee would fully encourage the Islamabad United in PSL matches. M. Ashfaq Chatha, Khalid Chaudhry, Saeed Ahmed Bhatti, Naveed Malik, Ahsan Zafar Bakhtawari, Nisar Mirza, Abbas Hashmi, Wasil Ramzan, Syed Asad Haider, Asif Shah, M. Nazim Ghauri, Babar Aftab Qazi, Humayun Saleem, M. Kashif Akram, Ch. M. Ashraf and others also attended the meeting.