The Pakistan Engineers Forum (PEF) Qatar recently held its inaugural session for the new cabinet for the year 2022-2024.
Speaking on the occasion, the founding member and two-time former President of PEF, and master of the ceremony, Badar Khan gave a rich account of PEF history spanning a quarter of a century since its establishment in early 1997.
Khan said PEF is the mother of all Pakistani voluntary, social and professional organisations in Qatar. He gave the example of Sohni Dahrti, Professional Toastmaster Club and Pakistan Professional Forum that were launched with the support of PEF. He said PEF has incredible repertoire of memorable programmes over the last 25 years. PEF programmes were graced by personalities such as Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan and Prime Minister Imran Khan. He also named top Qatari executives who were guests of honour in past PEF programmes.
Khan also named ex ambassadors of Pakistan in Qatar — Arif Kamal, Mohammad Asghar Afridi and Sarfaraz Khanzadeh — for their extraordinary support to PEF in the past.
The introduction of all the new nominated team members with profiles displayed on the screen was a delightful beginning of team building.
PEF President Riyaz Ahmed Bakali elaborated on the future vision, mission, and direction statement for PEF. He nominated key members to PEF advisory comprising senior and experienced community professionals.
He emphasised the need to set new standards and heights of performance for PEF by indulging in research and development, publishing research papers, assisting in providing engineering solutions to Qatari organisations, networking by reaching out to all other professional Qatari and expatriate forums in Qatar.
Outgoing PEF president Javed Iqbal, emphasised defining and expanding boundaries of membership and finding a way to include other professionals in PEF.
