Karachi: Outgoing Administrator of Karachi Iftikhar Ali Shallwani has said that efforts are on to transform Karachi into a modern city after resolving its issues related to water supply, drainage, road network, garbage disposal and public transportation.
The Outgoing Administrator Karachi stated this while addressing a conference on making Pakistan a modern state. Shallwani’s speech at the conference was his last public appearance as the administrator Karachi as afterwards he, being a senior officer of the Pakistan’s civil service, is transferred to Islamabad to serve in the federal government after promoted to grade-22.
In his place, Sindh government has posted a grade-20 bureaucrat Laeeq Ahmed as the new administrator Karachi. Prior to becoming the new Karachi’s administrator, Ahmed was Sindh government’s secretary for its Excise, Taxation, and Narcotics Control Department.