SUKKUR: The government of Sindh has appointed administrators in all districts of the province after the local councils completed their mandated tenure in the province. The local government bodies in the province had completed their four-year term on August 30th.

Sindh Local Government Department notified an end to the term of local councils in the province. Earlier, Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has announced that Local Government Secretary Iftikhar Shallwani will be appointed as administrator of Karachi.

Talking to journalists, the chief minister said that his government has decided to appoint Shallwani as Karachi administrator and a notification to this effect will be issued shortly. Earlier on September 4, Murad Ali Shah had said that the provincial government would appoint Karachi administrator soon.

The provincial government has now appointed Iftikhar Shallwani, a former commissioner of Karachi, as the new administrator of the port city. Moreover, the deputy commissioners of all districts of Sindh including Hyderabad, Badin, Sujawal, Thatta, Tando Muhammad Khan, Matiari, Tando Allahyar, Dadu, Mirpur Khas, Umarkot, Tharparkar, Shaheed Benazirabad, Sanghar, Naushehro Feroz, Sukkur, Ghotki, Khairpur, Larkana, Qambar-Shahdadkot, Shikarpur and Jacobabad, have been appointed as administrators of their respective districts.