The Big fight : Khan v/s Kannan

Adds another actuary, "This is not the first time ASI has relaxed the eligibility norms for issuance of certificate of practice. The ASI had issued the certificate for other actuaries earlier with similar qualifications."

According to one view, the issuing certificate of practice is entirely in the domain of ASI. In this case, the certificate was granted by a special committee in a two to one decision, which is legally valid and IRDA does not need to look any further.

Responding to Khan's second charge an ASI official says, "It is nothing but natural to start an important event with an invocation. The president mooted the idea of singing the Saraswathi Vandhana as ASI is an educational institution. The idea was dropped when Khan objected."

Many actuaries feel that ASI has been functioning as a secular institution. No member raised any objection when Khan ended his articles in the institute magazine The Actuary with the slogan Insha Allah.

On the controversy surrounding the cancellation of Lahore as examination centre, ASI blames Khan. According to ASI, decisions on examination centres are taken by its examination board and not by the president alone. The board was not aware about Khan's commitment to have Lahore as an examination centre. It was only Karachi that ASI was considering officially. Moreover, with the number of Pakistani students being small two centres were not warranted. In the first place, Lahore was never an examination centre, so the question of cancellation does not arise, remarks an official.