 In 2017, Director General of Pakistan National Council of Arts (PNCA) was Jamal Shah.In a nationwide design contest in 1989, the design of Suhail Abbasi & Naeem Pasha of M/s Suhail & Pasha, Architects & Planning Consultants Islamabad was selected for the construction of the National Art Gallery.Their modernistic brick cube is a model of Miesian purity and functionality.