I would like the family to know how much Wasim was liked and respected. We undertook a number of engineering surveys together as a team of four, Wasim, Didier Schutz (France), Glenn Doan (Australian) and myself (England). A mix of some large personalities, egos and nationalities and all highly experienced and generally full of nonsense. When we met for the first time we all clicked and whilst work was great fun we also learnt a great deal from one another as engineers and also as people - I think the client was happy as well! We still have a shared What'sApp account called 'Hologram for the King', a film about some of the intricacies and oddities of conducting work in KSA which had made us all chuckle and we generally kept daily contact with one another through text messages on this; which is how I heard the news of Wasim's untimely passing which I don't think any of us could believe and was very upsetting. It is important for you to know, and especially for the children, what their father was like as a man from people who you may not know but who worked with him. I think that all who knew Wasim would agree that he was first and foremost, a gentleman; a kind, honest, courteous, caring and considerate man with a great sense of humour and a sense of the ridiculous.... which I think are the best qualities a person can have. A Man of the World who had travelled widely and experienced many things which meant that he always had something to talk about or could cast a meaningful opinion on something going on somewhere in the in the world. He had the art of small-talk down to a tee. You also had the sense that with Wasim you could immediately trust him and he would help you if he could - he had a lot of empathy and would try and see something though the other persons eyes.. It was his open and calming demeanour that was put to the test a number of times just to keep us all in-line but always in a gentle and humorous manner which for some of us, coming from the countries that we do, is a actually quite a rare quality and, even though we are all seasoned professionals, somehow we responded to Wasim. As a engineer, he had detailed knowledge and he was very much one-step at a time, a logical thinker and where he was unsure he would ask the question, which generally revealed that no one else actually understood what was going on either, which always made me smile. He would talk about his children and his wife... you could see that he loved them dearly ... he must be terribly missed by his family and I am so very sorry.... none of us will forget him and the remaining troupe of engineers salute him.