The Southern Regional Committee of Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan (ICAP) is organizing Post Budget Seminar 2012 – 2013 to be held on Wednesday at 4:00 pm at Convention Center, Defence Authority Country & Golf Club here.
Mr. Shahid Hussain Asad, Member, Inland Revenue Service, Federal Board of Revenue will be the chief guest and Shaikh Saqib Masood, FCA, Partner, KPMG Taseer Hadi & Co., Mr. Asad Umar, Former President, Engro Corporation Ltd, Syed Masoud Ali Naqvi, FCA, Senior Partner, KPMG Taseer Hadi & Co, Mr. Ebrahim Yacoob Sidat, FCA, Country Managing Partner, Ernst & Young Ford Rhodes Sidat Hyder, S.M. Shabbar Zaidi, FCA, Partner, Tax Services, A.F. Ferguson & Co, Mr. Farrukh V. Junaidy, FCA, Senior Partner, Muniff Ziauddin Junaidy & Co, Syed Najmul Hussain, FCA, Convener CPD, Southern Regional Committee, ICAP and Mr. Adnan Mufti, FCA, Chairman, Southern Regional Committee, ICAP will be the speakers at the seminar.
The Federal Budget 2012-2013, expected to be presented on the 1st June 2012 before the National Assembly has specific significance attached to it in view of general elections which are scheduled to be held in early 2013. Being the last budget of the current political government, it would be interesting to observe how the policy makers at Islamabad would attempt to address the focal issues engulfing the country at this crucial juncture of Pakistan’s history, while at the same time, balancing the expectations of the masses.