{"id":338738,"date":"2023-06-20T08:46:24","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T03:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=338738"},"modified":"2023-06-20T08:46:24","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T03:46:24","slug":"murtaza-wahab-sworn-in-as-karachi-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/murtaza-wahab-sworn-in-as-karachi-mayor\/","title":{"rendered":"Murtaza Wahab sworn in as Karachi mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City boss<br \/>\n KARACHI<br \/>\nPakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Murtaza Wahab was sworn in as the mayor of Karachi today (Monday) after he won the elections and defeated Jamaat-e-Islami\u2019s (JI) Hafiz Naeem Ur Rehman. Wahab\u2019s oath was administered by Provincial Election Commissioner Sindh Ejaz Anwar Chohan. Following Wahab\u2019s oath, his deputy Salman Abdullah also took oath of office. The mayoral elections in the city were held on June 15 in which the PPP leader secured 173 votes while the JI\u2019s Karachi chief bagged 160 votes.<\/p>\n<p>The dramatic turnaround was followed by JI allegations that Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and the Sindh administration used muscle power and money to ensure victory for their candidates, which the PPP leaders including Wahab rejected. <\/p>\n<p>Following Wahab\u2019s win, the workers of PPP and JI clashed outside the Arts Council \u2014 which was the polling station for the mayoral election. <\/p>\n<p>The oath-taking ceremony of the mayor and deputy mayor was attended by PPP Chairman and Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah, various ministers and advisors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City boss KARACHI Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Murtaza Wahab was sworn in as the mayor of Karachi today (Monday) after he won the elections and defeated Jamaat-e-Islami\u2019s (JI) Hafiz Naeem Ur Rehman. Wahab\u2019s oath was administered by Provincial Election Commissioner Sindh Ejaz Anwar Chohan. Following Wahab\u2019s oath, his deputy Salman Abdullah also took oath [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-338738","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Murtaza Wahab sworn in as Karachi mayor<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/murtaza-wahab-sworn-in-as-karachi-mayor\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Murtaza Wahab sworn in as Karachi mayor\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"City boss KARACHI Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Murtaza Wahab was sworn in as the mayor of Karachi today (Monday) after he won the elections and defeated Jamaat-e-Islami\u2019s (JI) Hafiz Naeem Ur Rehman. 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