Engr. Wasif Nazar Siddiqui receiving the FIDIC Asia Pacific Project Award 2025 on stage

Leadership

The people accountable for the work

The practice was established in Karachi in 1982 by Engr. Nazar Siddiqui. It is led today by his two sons, Engr. Atif Nazar Siddiqui as Chief Executive and Engr. Wasif Nazar Siddiqui as Managing Director.

Founder: Engr. Nazar Siddiqui
Chief Executive: Engr. Atif Nazar Siddiqui
Managing Director: Engr. Wasif Nazar Siddiqui

The practice

Founder and principals

Founder / 1945–2020

Engr. Nazar Siddiqui

He founded the practice in Karachi and put it on the register of the Pakistan Engineering Council on 4 June 1982, a civil engineer out of NED in 1971, with eleven years in large multidisciplinary consultancies behind him.

He set the office up to carry a commission whole, from the survey to the engineer on site, and led it for thirty-nine years. He served on technical committees of the Pakistan Engineering Council and as Vice President of the Association of Consulting Engineers, Pakistan. His account is on the founder’s page.

Office: Founder
Graduated: NED, Karachi, 1971
Registered with PEC: 4 June 1982
ACEP: Vice President

Chief Executive

Engr. Atif Nazar Siddiqui

Chief Executive. He read civil engineering at Sir Syed University of Engineering & Technology in Karachi and took his master's at NED.

The direction of the practice sits with him and his brother, and every commission on this site is taken under their signature, hospitals for the Pakistan Navy and the Governments of Sindh and Balochistan, campuses at Khairpur, Jamshoro, Muridke and Uthal, civic buildings in Karachi, and the city's road, drainage and coastal schemes.

The practice's first work outside Pakistan, the medical school for the Maldives National University at Hulhumalé, was taken during his tenure. He is Vice President of the Aligarh Muslim University Old Boys' Association.

Office: Chief Executive
Bachelor's: Civil engineering, Sir Syed University
Master's: NED University of Engineering & Technology
Also serves: Vice President, AMUOBA

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Managing Director

Engr. Wasif Nazar Siddiqui

Managing Director, and the running of the office day to day is his. He read civil engineering at Sir Syed University of Engineering & Technology and took a master's at NED in engineering management, which is the discipline he practises.

He has contributed to the Pakistan Engineering Council's Standard Bidding Documents Committee, the body that drafts the contracts Pakistani public procurement runs on, work that keeps the practice fluent in the terms government projects are let under.

He is Honorary Secretary of the Association of Consulting Engineers, Pakistan, the association his father served as Vice President, and Joint Secretary, Sports, of the Aligarh Muslim University Old Boys' Association.

International standing

Elected a board member of FIDIC Asia Pacific. He is the first Pakistani to serve on any board of the International Federation of Consulting Engineers, neither the federation, founded in 1913, nor its Asia Pacific body, founded in 1995, has had one before. FIDIC publishes the contract suite used on most World Bank and Asian Development Bank funded work: the procurement environment this practice competes in.

Office: Managing Director
Bachelor's: Civil engineering, Sir Syed University
Master's: Engineering management, NED
Board member: FIDIC Asia Pacific
Honorary Secretary: ACEP
Also serves: Joint Secretary, Sports, AMUOBA

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Between them they run a practice that holds every discipline in one office, so a single appointment can carry a project from the master plan to the engineer on site, as at Gambat and PNS Shifa. The nine disciplines are set out on the services page, and the registrations on the about page.

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