Sindh govt appoints Iftikhar Shallwani as Karachi administrator

KARACHI: The Sindh Government has issued a notification appointing senior bureaucrat Iftikhar Ali Shallwani as the administrator of Karachi after the tenure of the local bodies expired last month.

Shallwani was serving as the additional secretary of the Sindh local government department and was serving as the Karachi commissioner. He also served as the secretary of the health and law departments in Sindh.

The notification was issued by Sindh Chief Secretary Syed Mumtaz Ali Shah in accordance with Section 21(3) of the Sindh Local Government Act 2013.

The notification also appointed the deputy commissioner of District Malir as the administrator of the District Council Karachi that comprises the rural parts of the city. The additional deputy commissioner-1 District Malir has been made the administrator of District Municipal Corporation (DMC) Malir.

Meanwhile, the deputy commissioners in the Korangi, East, West, South, and Central districts, have been given the charge of the administrators of the respective DMCs.

Ghanwar Leghari has been appointed as Administrator for District Council Karachi, Irshad Sodhar in DMC South, Saleemullah Odho in West District, Muhammad Ali Shah in Eastern District, Shehryar Memon in Korangi District and ADC One for Malir.

The deputy commissioners, additional deputy commissioners and assistant commissioners in the rest of the province have been assigned additional responsibilities as the administrators of their respective local government councils. Nisar Memon, a Grade 19 officer, has been appointed as head of the Sukkar Municipal Corporation.