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Mayor of Karachi (Urdu: ناظم کراچی) is the Mayor who heads the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) which controls the Local Government system of Karachi.

Karachi Local Government System

The current Karachi Local Government Sysstem follows Sindh Local Government Act 2013 (SLGA 2013)

The Karachi Local Government consists of Karachi Metropolitan Corporation which is subdivided into of 6 District Municipal Corporations (DMCs) which are headed by Chairmen and Deputy Chairmen. the districts or Zila of Karachi Local Government as of Sindh local government act 2013 are District Central, District West, District East, District South, Malir and Korangi.Each district is further divided into Union Committees (UCs) which are headed by Chairmen and vice chairmen. Each Union committee is further sub divided into four wards. The Local government elections directly elect the UC chairmen/vice chairmen panel and the 4 ward members of each UC. the seats are reserved for women, non muslim minorities, youth members and labours in a Union Committee all of which are indirectly elected by the direct election of chairman/vice chairman panel.

The chairman of a Union committee belongs to the City council/KMC and elects the Mayor/deputy mayor candidate, while the Vice Chairman of Union Committee elects the chairman/Vice chairman of District Municipal corporation (DMC) and works in District municipal corporation office.

The City Hall

The historic and iconic building of Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) houses the offices of mayor and deputy mayor of the city and the city council Hall with 304 members (Union committee chairmen). The foundation of the building was laid in 1927 and the construction was completed on 1930. the cost of building was 1,725,000 RS.

Official Residence

KDA Scheme 1 in Gulshan-e-Iqbal 'Camp Office' is the official residence for the Deputy Mayor of Karachi.

List of Mayors

Mayors of Karachi (1933 - 1962)

Mayors of Karachi (1979 - present)

1979 - 2005:Though the LBEs were, by law, held on a non-party basis, in reality the political parties were at the heart of the process. Political parties were openly supporting candidates, and the media was extensively reporting party involvement.

2016 elections: were party based officially.

Party Legend

List of Mayors of Karachi

#	Party Flag	Name of nazim	Starting term	Ending term	Deputy Mayor	Notes
24		Abdul Sattar Afghani (1st term)	November 9, 1979	November 7, 1983		non-partisan Local govt by Gen. Zia
25		Abdul Sattar Afghani (2nd term)	November 7, 1983	February 12, 1987
26		Farooq Sattar	January 9, 1988	July 27, 1992	Abdul Razik Khan	Youngest Mayor of the world at the age of 28
Administrator System was implemented during 1992 - 2001
27		Naimatullah Khan	August 14, 2001	May 2005	Tariq Hasan	non-partisan City District govt 2000-2010 by Gen. Musharraf, Sindh Local Government Ordinance (SLGO) 2001
28		Syed Mustafa Kamal	October 17, 2005	February 2010	Nasreen Jalil
Commissioner System was implemented during 2010 - 2016
29		Waseem Akhtar	August 30, 2016	incumbent	Dr. Arshad A Vohra	First party based Local elections of Pakistan, Sindh Local Govt Act (SLGA 2013)

Types of Governments

Karachi City Municipal Act (1933 - 1976)

The City of Karachi Municipal Act was promulgated in 1933. Initially the Municipal Corporation comprised the mayor, the deputy mayor and 57 councillors.

Sind People's Ordinance (SPO 1972)

In Sind People's Ordinance of 1972 (amended in 1976), provision was made for the establishment of the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC). In 1976, Karachi Municipal Corporation was upgraded to Karachi Metropolitan Corporation. The administrative area of Karachi was a second-level subdivision known as Karachi Division, which was subdivided into five districts: Karachi Central, Karachi East, Karachi South, Karachi West and Malir.

On the Contrary to its latest and amended version in the form of 'Sindh Local Government Act 2013', the 1972 Ordinance provided ample authorities and powers to the Mayor of the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation including Master planning, building control, town planning, development etc.

non party based elections were held for a brief period of ten years(1979-1988). In 1992 after culmination of mayoral tenure of Farooq Sattar, the elected mayor system was abolished and the appointed Administrator System was implemented during 1992 - 2001.

Sindh Local Government Ordinance 1979

This act was passed by Army dictator General Zia ul Haq which restricted role of mayor

Sindh Local Government Ordinance (SLGO 2001)

In January 2000, under Pervez Musharraf Sindh Local Government Ordinance (SLGO 2001) was passed

The government of Pakistan designed a new devolution of financial resources and responsibilities. This plan abolished the earlier second-level division and merged the five districts of Karachi into a Karachi District. When the devolution plan was implemented in 2001, this district officially became a City District, with the City District Government of Karachi handling its government.

Under CDG Karachi had a three-tier federated system, formed by

The City District Government (CDG) Town Municipal Administrations Union Council Administrations

The City-District of Karachi was divided into 18 Towns governed by elected municipal administrations responsible for infrastructure and spatial planning, development facilitation, and municipal services (water, sanitation, solid waste, repairing roads, parks, street lights, and traffic engineering), with some functions being retained by the CDG.

The towns were sub-divided into 178 localities governed by elected union councils (UC's), which were the core element of the local government system. Each UC was a body of thirteen directly elected members including a Nazim (mayor) and a Naib Nazim (deputy mayor). The UC Nazim headed the union administration and was responsible for facilitating the CDG to plan and execute municipal services, as well as for informing higher authorities about public concerns and complaints.

SIndh People's Local Government Ordinance (SPLGO 2012)

Local Government Ordinance passed by Sindh assembly proposed creation of five metropolitan corporations Karachi, Hyderabad, Sukkur, Larkana and Mirpurkhas. It divided Karachi into Five districts. The Ordinance was promising and provided good powers and authorities to the Mayors, but it was was shortly discarded by Sindh Assembly of Feb21, 2013.

Sindh Local Government Act (SPLGA 2013)

The Sindh Local Government Act 2013 (SLGA 2013) further carved the city into 6 districts. two new districts of Korangi and Malir were formed. The Sindh Local Government Act also proposed the formation of 7th district called 'district counsel' which comprises the rural areas of Karachi and doesn't come under Karachi Metropolitan Corporation. The important Local Bodies and revenue generating machines for Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) like KW&SB (Water Board), KDA, KBCA (Karachi Building Control Authority, Solid Waste Management etc were removed from KMC and merged with the Sindh province. The powers of mayor under new act were greatly reduced compared with the one passed in 2001 and 2012.

In 2014, Supreme court ordered the provinces to restore Local Government system and following the court's decision, Government of Sindh finally agreed to conduct Local Government elections on December 15, 2015.

Mayor elections

Elections 2005

Mayor results 2005

Karachi Mayor Election, 2005
#	Party	Candidate	CDGK	Percentage
1	Muttahida Quami Movement	Mustafa Kamal	1,490	64.5%
2	Jamaat-e-Islami	Naimatullah Khan	800	34.5%
3	Others		24	1%
Total			2,314	100%

* All counsellors (13 from each 174 Union Council) participated in direct voting process for mayor election for CDGK). The election took place on October 6, 2005. Naimatullah Khan was fielded by Tameer-i-Karachi Ittehad of the combined opposition parties.

elections 2016

for 2015 elections see detailed results at: Karachi Local Government Elections

Karachi Mayor Election, 2016
#	Party	Candidate	KMC	Percentage
1	Muttahida Qaumi Movement	Waseem Akhtar	208	68.2%
2	Pakistan Peoples Party	Karamullah Waqasi	86	28.2%
3	did not vote	-	11	3.6%
Total			305	100%

* The 305 directly and indirectly elected members of Union Committee of KMC voted for Mayor of Karachi on August 24, 2016. Waseem Akhter comfortably defeated 6 party alliance formed to contest against the city`s dominant political force, the MQM

PTI Karachi leader Faisal Vawda submitted petition for the disqualification of Karachi mayor-elect Waseem Akhter few hours before his oath taking ceremony in the Sindh High Court. Sindh High Court withdrew his production orders and all sessions judges in Karachi were stopped from administering the oath after not getting clearance from the Sindh High Court. Faisal Wavda petition was later rejected and second production orders were issued.

Waseem Akhter was crowned mayor of Karachi on August 30, 2016. Ceremony was held at Polo Ground.

See also

• City District Government Karachi
• Karachi Metropolitan Corporation
• Mayor of Hyderabad

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External links

• History of Mayors at CDG Karachi Official Page

• Lists of mayors
• Mayors of Karachi
• Lists of political office-holders in Pakistan
• Karachi-related lists