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	There are 4 mayors of Sindh, one mayor for metropolitan corporation, 3 mayors for municipal corporations<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.sindh.gov.pk/dpt/Local%20Government/THE%20DRAFT%20SINDH%20LOCAL%20GOVERNMENT%20ACT%202013.pdf\|title=Sindh Local Govt Act 2013\|last=\|first=\|date=\|website=\|publisher=\|access-date=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.dawn.com/news/1216234\|title=Sindh local government set-up explainer\|last=Newspaper\|first=From the\|date=2015-10-30\|access-date=2016-09-12}}</ref>.		There are 4 mayors of Sindh, one mayor for metropolitan corporation, 3 mayors for municipal corporations<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.sindh.gov.pk/dpt/Local%20Government/THE%20DRAFT%20SINDH%20LOCAL%20GOVERNMENT%20ACT%202013.pdf\|title=Sindh Local Govt Act 2013\|last=\|first=\|date=\|website=\|publisher=\|access-date=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.dawn.com/news/1216234\|title=Sindh local government set-up explainer\|last=Newspaper\|first=From the\|date=2015-10-30\|access-date=2016-09-12}}</ref>.

	The ~~Sindh~~ Local Govt defines mayor and deputy mayor as:<blockquote>x. ‘'''Chairman'''’ means the chairman and include chairperson of Council constituted under the Act but in the case of a Municipal Corporation or a Metropolitan Corporation, the Chairman may be called the Mayor.</blockquote><blockquote>xlviii. “'''Mayor'''” means the Mayor of a Corporation;</blockquote><blockquote>xxi. “'''Deputy Mayor'''” means the Deputy Mayor of the Corporation;</blockquote>CHAPTER- III '''CONSTITUTION AND COMPOSITION OF COUNCILS''', <blockquote>(4) Metropolitan Corporation. There shall be a Metropolitan Corporation for Karachi Division</blockquote>		The Punjab Local Govt defines mayor and deputy mayor as:<blockquote>x. ‘'''Chairman'''’ means the chairman and include chairperson of Council constituted under the Act but in the case of a Municipal Corporation or a Metropolitan Corporation, the Chairman may be called the Mayor.</blockquote><blockquote>xlviii. “'''Mayor'''” means the Mayor of a Corporation;</blockquote><blockquote>xxi. “'''Deputy Mayor'''” means the Deputy Mayor of the Corporation;</blockquote>CHAPTER- III '''CONSTITUTION AND COMPOSITION OF COUNCILS''', <blockquote>(4) Metropolitan Corporation. There shall be a Metropolitan Corporation for Karachi Division</blockquote>
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	=== Anomaly in Sindh Local Govt Act 2013 ===		=== Anomaly in Sindh Local Govt Act 2013 ===
	<nowiki>*</nowiki>it is to be noted, a notable anomaly of Sindh Local Govt Act which declares a city of 15 UCs, Larkana as municipal corporation having a mayor where as the fourth largest city of Sindh, Mirpurkhas having 46 UCs as municipal committee devoid of any corporation or mayor. Although Punjab Local govt Act clearly defines a municipal corporation based on urban area exceeding 500,000 population, Sindh Local Act only declares that <blockquote>(iv) a Municipal Corporation for each City comprising of Union Committees as prescribed by the Government; ('''CHAPTER- III CONSTITUTION AND COMPOSITION OF COUNCILS 16. CONSTITUTION OF COUNCIL)'''</blockquote>There is no definite criteria for declaring municipal corporation in Sindh Local Act 2013 as opposed to Punjab Local Act 2013		<nowiki>*</nowiki>it is to be noted, a notable anomaly of Sindh Local Govt Act which declares a city of 15 UCs, ] as municipal corporation having a mayor where as the fourth largest city of Sindh, ] having 46 UCs as municipal committee devoid of any corporation or mayor. Although Punjab Local govt Act clearly defines a municipal corporation based on urban area exceeding 500,000 population, Sindh Local Act only declares that <blockquote>(iv) a Municipal Corporation for each City comprising of Union Committees as prescribed by the Government; ('''CHAPTER- III CONSTITUTION AND COMPOSITION OF COUNCILS 16. CONSTITUTION OF COUNCIL)'''</blockquote>There is no definite criteria for declaring municipal corporation in Sindh Local Act 2013 as opposed to Punjab Local Act 2013

	Following is the list of Mayors from Sindh		Following is the list of Mayors from Sindh

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List of current Mayors of Pakistan according to 2015 Local Government Elections

List of Mayor cities of Pakistan

#	Mayor	Deputy Mayor	Took Office	City	Population	Affiliation	Notes
1	Wasim Akhtar	Arshad Vohra	Aug 30, 2016	Karachi, Sindh	24,300,625	MQM	page
2	Tayyab Hussain	Sohail Mashadi	Aug 30, 2016	Hyderabad, Sindh	3,437,798	MQM	page
3	Arbab Asim Khan	Syed Qasim Ali Shah	Aug 30, 2015	Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa	3,233,252	PTI	page
4	Sheikh Ansar Aziz	Chaudhry Riffat Javed, Syed Zeeshan Ali Naqvi, *Muhammad Azam Khan	Mar 04, 2016	Islamabad, Capital Territory	2,082,262	PML(N)	page
5	Dr. Kaleem Ullah Kakar	Younus Baloch	Jan 29, 2015	Quetta, Balochistan	1,642,410	PKMAP, PML(N)	page
6	Arsalan Shaikh	Tariq Chauhan	Aug 30, 2016	Sukkur, Sindh	900,148	PPP	page
7	Sardar Sher Bahadur	Shaukat Tanoli	Aug 30, 2015	Abbottabad, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa	605,999	IND	page
8	Muhammad Aslam Shaikh	Anwar Ali Luhar	Aug 30, 2016	Larkana, Sindh	522,315	PPP	page

* Mayors and Deputy Mayors of Punjab are yet to be elected

List of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa District Nazims

This is the list of 23 District Nazims and Naib Nazims of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

#	Nazim	Naib Nazim	Took Office	District	Affiliation
1	Sardar Sher Bahader	Shoukat Tanoli	Aug 30, 2015	Abbottabad	IND
2	Said Ghulam	Ghulam Murtaza		Mansehra	PML(N)
3	Adil Islam	Agha Shabir Ahmad Awan		Haripur	PTI
4	Atta-ur-Rehman	Faheem Akbar Khan		Battagram	PTI
5				Bannu
6	Fahad Khan Utmanzai	Musawir Khan Durrani		Charsadda	PTI/JI
7	Azizullah Alizai	Muhammad Ismail		D.I. Khan	PTI
8	Obaid Ullah	Said Umar		Hangu	JUI(F)/IND
9	Dr. Umar Daraz	Maj (R) Muhammad Sajad		Karak	PTI
10	Niaz Muhammad Khan	Abdu-ur-Rashid Khan		Kohat	JUI(F)/PML(N)
11	Ishfaq Ahmad Khan	Arab Khan		Lakki Marwat	PPP/PTI
12	Himayat Ullah Mayar	Asad Ali		Mardan	ANP/PPP
13	Liqat Khattak	Ishfaq Ahmad		Nowshera	PTI
14	Muhammad Asim Khan	Syed Qasim Ali Shah		Peshawar	PTI
15	Mustafa Kundi	Aftab Ahmad		Tank	PTI
16	Amer Rehman	Aser Khan		Swabi	ANP/JUI(F)
17	Muhammad Ali Shah	Abdu-ul-Jabbar Khan		Swat	PML(N)/ANP
18	Niaz Ahmad	Kamran lqbal		Shangla	PML(N)/PPP
19	Dr. Ubaid Ullah	Yousaf Ali		Buner	JI/ANP
20	Faseeh Ullah	Hanif ullah		U.Dir	JI
21	Muhammad Rasool	Abdul Rashid		L.Dir	JI
22	Syed Ahmad Ali Shah	Col (R) Ibrar Hussian		Malakand	PPP/ANP
23	Maghfirat Shah	Abdul Shakoor		Chitral	JUI(F)

List of Balochistan Mayors

Chapter 3 "COMPOSITION OF LOCAL COUNCILS", clause 14 declares

14. Election of Chairmen of Local Councils.- For every Local Council there shall be a Chairman who shall be elected in the prescribed manner: Provided that the Chairman of Metropolitan Corporation may be designated as Mayor.

According to Balochistan local Govt Act 2010, it has only one mayor for Quetta Metropolitan Corporation.

#	Mayors	Deputy Mayors	Took Office	City	Affiliation	population	Notes
1	Dr. Kaleem Ullah Kakar	Younus Baloch	Jan 29, 2015	Quetta, Balochistan	1,642,410	PKMAP, PML(N)	page

List of Punjab Mayors

there are total of 12 mayors in Punjab for 11 municipal corporations and one metropolitan corporation.

The Sindh Local Govt defines mayor and deputy mayor as:

(k) “Deputy Mayor” means a Deputy Mayor of the Metropolitan Corporation or a Municipal Corporation;

(x) “Mayor” means the Mayor of the Metropolitan Corporation or a Municipal Corporation;

PLGA 2013 also defines Metropolitan and municipal corporations as;

(z) “Metropolitan Corporation” means Metropolitan Corporation Lahore;

CHAPTER III CONSTITUTION OF LOCAL GOVERNMENTS

(d) an integrated urban area having a population of more than five hundred thousand to be a Municipal Corporation.

#	Metropolitan Corp
1	Lahore

#	Municipal Corporation
1	Faisalabad
2	Rawalpindi
3	Multan
4	Gujranwala
5	Murree
6	sargodha
7	sahiwal
8	sialkot
9	gujrat
10	bhawalpur
11	D.G Khan

List of Sindh Mayors

There are 4 mayors of Sindh, one mayor for metropolitan corporation, 3 mayors for municipal corporations.

The Punjab Local Govt defines mayor and deputy mayor as:

x. ‘Chairman’ means the chairman and include chairperson of Council constituted under the Act but in the case of a Municipal Corporation or a Metropolitan Corporation, the Chairman may be called the Mayor.

xlviii. “Mayor” means the Mayor of a Corporation;

xxi. “Deputy Mayor” means the Deputy Mayor of the Corporation;

CHAPTER- III CONSTITUTION AND COMPOSITION OF COUNCILS,

(4) Metropolitan Corporation. There shall be a Metropolitan Corporation for Karachi Division

#	Metropolitan Corp
1	Karachi

#	Municipal Corporation
1	Hyderabad
2	Sukkur
3	Larkana*

Anomaly in Sindh Local Govt Act 2013

*it is to be noted, a notable anomaly of Sindh Local Govt Act which declares a city of 15 UCs, Larkana as municipal corporation having a mayor where as the fourth largest city of Sindh, Mirpurkhas having 46 UCs as municipal committee devoid of any corporation or mayor. Although Punjab Local govt Act clearly defines a municipal corporation based on urban area exceeding 500,000 population, Sindh Local Act only declares that

(iv) a Municipal Corporation for each City comprising of Union Committees as prescribed by the Government; (CHAPTER- III CONSTITUTION AND COMPOSITION OF COUNCILS 16. CONSTITUTION OF COUNCIL)

There is no definite criteria for declaring municipal corporation in Sindh Local Act 2013 as opposed to Punjab Local Act 2013

Following is the list of Mayors from Sindh

#	Mayor	Deputy Mayor	Took Office	City	Population	Affiliation	Notes
1	Wasim Akhtar	Arshad Vohra	Aug 30, 2016	Karachi, Sindh	24,300,625	MQM	page
2	Tayyab Hussain	Sohail Mashadi	Aug 30, 2016	Hyderabad, Sindh	3,437,798	MQM	page
3	Arsalan Shaikh	Tariq Chauhan	Aug 30, 2016	Sukkur, Sindh	900,148	PPP	page
4	Muhammad Aslam Shaikh	Anwar Ali Luhar	Aug 30, 2016	Larkana, Sindh	522,315	PPP	page

References

"Complete List of KPK District and Tehsil Nazims Elected in 2015". 2015-09-01. Retrieved 2016-09-11.
"Opinion: Local Government Elections in Balochistan". UNDP in Pakistan. Retrieved 2016-09-12.
"The Balochistan Local Government Act 2010".
"notification local govt Punjab" (PDF).
"Punjab Local Govt Act 2013" (PDF).
"Sindh Local Govt Act 2013" (PDF).
Newspaper, From the (2015-10-30). "Sindh local government set-up explainer". Retrieved 2016-09-12.

v t e Mayors of Pakistan
Balochistan	Quetta
Capital Territory	Islamabad
Khyber Pakthunkhwa	Abbottabad Peshawar
Punjab	Bahawalpur Faisalabad Gujranwala Lahore Multan Rawalpindi Sahiwal Sialkot
Sindh	Hyderabad Karachi Larkana Mirpurkhas Sukkur

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