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COB new chief takes charge

KARACHI: A senior Controller of Karachi Building Control Authority (KBCA), Syed Mubarak Raza Wasti, has taken over as Chief Controller of Buildings (COB).

He has taken over the charge in the absence of COB Akhtar Iqbal Usmani, who has gone to Saudi Arabia for Haj.

Wasti has a vast experience of working in different sections of Building Control Authority.

He obtained M S degree in environment from NED University.

He was instrumental in the conduct of survey of all of Karachi's historical buildings.

He had been the convenor of committee for dangerous buildings and co-ordinator of Oversee Committee.

Recently Mubarak Wasti was elected as a member of the Executive Committee of Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC). APP