‘Karachi city administrator to be appointed by Monday’

PPP minister says outgoing LG representatives will continue serving until Sunday

KARACHI:

Adding to the confusion around the end of local government representatives' tenure, Sindh Local Government Minister Nasir Hussain Shah said the officials would continue serving until August 30 (today), which was when the notification for the completion of the local government tenure would be issued.

Speaking to The Express Tribune on Saturday, the minister said the new administrator for Karachi would be appointed by Monday.

Shah stated that suggestions had been put forward for giving the administrators' charge temporarily to government officials, adding that the names of candidates for the Karachi administrator were being finalised.

On Friday, sources in the Election Commission of Pakistan had claimed the tenures would actually come to an end on Saturday (August 29), at midnight. These statements had come after outgoing Karachi mayor Wasim Akhtar and sources in the Sindh government announced that the tenures would end on August 28 in Sindh.

Local government representatives currently holding positions in the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC), including the mayor, deputy mayor, six district municipal corporation (DMC) chairpersons, DMC deputy chairpersons and district councils' chairpersons and deputy chairpersons, took oath in August, 2016, after they secured victories in local government elections in September, 2015.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 30^th, 2020.