On merit: Over 7,000 engineers turn up at job fair

PEC partners with multinational and local firms to offer hundreds of opportunities.

PESHAWAR: A whopping 7,500 engineers from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Federally Administered Tribal Areas registered on day one of the Pakistan Engineering Council Job Fair, the first of its kind in the province.

International companies offered as many as 250 jobs to engineering graduates while local entities also announced around 100 employment openings.

Speaking at an award ceremony turned dinner at the Governor House on Wednesday night, PEC Chairman Syed Abdul Qadir vowed to create job opportunities with multinationals firms in Peshawar only, instead of sending engineers abroad.



The council assured it would extend its complete support to improve the socioeconomic condition of the country. Qadir also took the opportunity to highlight the basic concept behind the fair.

Later, Governor Sardar Mehtab Ahmad Khan gave away shields and certificates to representatives of several multinational companies, universities and other commercial entities for their active role in making the job fair a success.

Mehtab said the registration of more than 7,500 engineers was extremely encouraging and hundreds of jobless engineers of the region would have employment opportunities with national and multinational companies. He emphasised that such activities need to be initiated in other sectors as well.

Former K-P chief minister Pir Sabir Shah, Minister for Finance Muzaffar Said, Chairman PEC Syed Abdul Qadir Shah, programme convener and secretary housing Engineer Zahid Arif, Tajikistan envoy in Pakistan Sher Ali as well as representatives of multinational companies from UAE, Saudi Arabia, China and other countries were present on the occasion.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 5^th, 2015.