Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC), which is the right forum for regulating consulting services in Pakistan, has not invoked any law against the appointment of present Managing Director of NESPAK, this was stated by Prof. Jameel Ahmad Khan, former Chairman PEC, former Vice-Chancellor of NED University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi and a former Director of NESPAK Board, in a press release issued here on Wednesday. He said that he had been the Chairman of PEC and certainly knew that there was a provision under Clause 3 of the Conduct and Practice of Consulting Engineers Bye-laws of PEC (1986) that an engineering consulting firm should be owned by professional engineers. However, the equity of the multi-disciplinary consultancy firm NESPAK is wholly owned by the State and as such it is exempted from the application of this law.
