Our History
In April 1948 our founding partner Mr. A K Khan, President Award for Pride of Performance, Sitara e Imtiaz, along with Sir Harold Shoobert, Secretary Food & Agriculture, and Mr. Abdus Sattar Pirzada, Minister of Food & Agriculture, sat in Pakistan Secretariat's barrack number 16 and founded a society. The aim of this society was to generate interest and fill the growing knowledge gap in horticulture, gardening and other nature oriented disciplines among the citizens to make the country more beautiful and sustainable. This society eventually became the Horticultural Society of Pakistan.
Continuing his mission of spreading knowledge and developing the country’s agriculture and horticulture sectors, Mr Khan served in various horticulture related roles from 1947 onward.
However, Mr Khan soon realized that there was a severe lack of knowledge regarding horticulture related fields in the private sector.
Hence,
after retiring as the Director of Parks and Recreation from Karachi Metropolitan Corporation in 1977 he founded A K Khan Associates.
A K Khan Associates became the country’s first Agri-horticulture and Landscape design consultancy firm and has since grown from strength to strength through innovation and determination adding architecture, project management, sustainability and environmental consulting capabilities.
