Karachi: The Sindh government has appointed Dr Syed Saif-ur-Rehman, as the new Administrator of Karachi, replacing Barrister Murtaza Wahab who belongs to the ruling Pakistan People’s Party.
The appointmen comes at a time when local government elections are scheduled to be held next month for choosing the new mayor of Karachi.
Wahab had been working as Karachi’s Administrator since August 2021. Besides city’s administrator, he holds the positions of the Law Adviser to Sindh Chief Minister and a spokesman for the Sindh government.
Dr Rehman, prior to his appointment as the new administrator, had been working as the principal secretary to Sindh Governor.
Earlier, he had served as a deputy commissioner in the province and Karachi’s municipal commissioner.
During his tenure as the city municipal commissioner, 62 acres of land of the Kidney Hill Park in the middle of Karachi was transformed from a hilly trash dump site into an urban forest in just two years by planting 1,50,000 trees.
The appointment of the new Karachi Administrator is in line with the accord signed between the Muttahida Quami Movement and PPP earlier this year.
The agreement was reached to persuade MQM to leave the then Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s coalition government and join the then Opposition political parties in the country for ousting Imran Khan as the prime minister through a vote of no-confidence in the National Assembly.
Wahab, in his farewell meeting with the employees and officers of Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC), praised their tireless services especially during heavy monsoon rains earlier in the year to keep the city running and save its areas from disastrous urban flooding.
He said the KMC’s staffers had also been working day and night to restore the basic infrastructure of the city that had been devastated due to heavy rains.
He said the Sindh government would continue to support the KMC as the biggest municipality in Pakistan for the development and progress of the provincial capital.
Dr Rehman, soon after his appointment, met Sindh Governor, Muhammad Kamran Khan Tessori, where they discussed plans for developing Karachi’s infrastructure.
