Mayor of Mirpurkhas
ميئر میرپورخاص
Mirpurkhas Municipal Corporation
Incumbent
Abdul Rauf Ghori (PPP)
since June 2023
AbbreviationMayor of Mirpurkhas (Father of City)
AppointerElectorate of Mirpurkhas
Term length4 years
Constituting instrumentSindh People's Local Govt Act 2013
PrecursorDistrict Nazim Mirpurkhas
Formation2022

The Mayor of Mirpurkhas (Urdu: ميئر میرپورخاص ) who heads the local government of Mirpurkhas, the sixth largest city of Sindh, Pakistan. Previously, the authority had resided with the district's Nazim.

Local government

While Pervez Musharraf was the President of Pakistan, Mirpurkhas was administrated by the local Nazim of the district government.

The position was dissolved in 2010, after the PPP came to power.

The Nazim was reinstated in 2016 after local government order (SPLGO 2013) came into effect. This order designated that the urban city areas of Mirpurkhas would be governed by the chairman of the municipal committee, while the rural areas would be governed by a district council and various town committees.

In 2022, Sindh Local Government create Mirpurkhas Municipal Corporation and upgrade the set of Nazim to Mayor of Mirpurkhas.

Mayors

The following list is of Mirpurkhas local government chairmen in recent years.[1][2][3][4]

List of Mayors
# Mayor start term End term Deputy Party Affiliation Notes
1 Pir Shafqat Hussain Shah Jilani 2001 2005 PPP District Nazim
2 Dr Kaniz Sughra Junejo 2005 2010 Dr Zafar Kamali PMLQ/MQM District Nazim
3 Farooq Jameel Durrani 31 Aug 2016 2019 Fareed Ahmed Khan MQM Chairman Municipal Committee
4 Engineer Kamran Shiekh July 2019 Aug 2020 Fareed Ahmed Khan MQM Chairman Municipal Committee
Post of Nazim Upgraded to Mayor
1 Abdul Rauf Ghori June 2023 PPP Mayor

Municipal Corporation

Election Results 2015

  MQM (68%)
  PPP (21.3%)
  IND (10.7%)

The following are the results of the elections which were conducted on 19 November 2015.[5]

# Parties seats
1 MQM 32
2 PPP 10
3 IND 5
Total 47

Election Results 2022

  PPP (87.2%)
  MQM (13.8%)

The following are the results of the elections which were conducted in May 2022.

# Parties seats
1 PPP 27
2 MQM 4
Total 31

References

  1. ↑ "MIRPURKHAS: Mirpurkhas nazim presents budget". DAWN.COM. 2004-06-30. Retrieved 2016-12-26.
  2. ↑ "ECP - Election Commission of Pakistan". ecp.gov.pk. Retrieved 2016-12-26.
  3. ↑ "MIRPURKHAS: District nazim to take oath tomorrow". DAWN.COM. 2005-10-16. Retrieved 2016-12-26.
  4. ↑ "Winning Mirpurkhas, MQM also installs mayor in HMC - The Express Tribune". The Express Tribune. 2016-08-25. Retrieved 2016-12-26.
  5. ↑ "ECP - Election Commission of Pakistan". ecp.gov.pk. Retrieved 2016-12-27.
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