Muhammad Sohail Rajput, a Grade 21 officer, has been appointed Karachi commissioner. He will replace Iftikhar Ali Shallwani, who took the charge on October 24, 2018. The new commissioner was previously serving as the secretary of the Sindh’s energy department. Shallwani, on the other hand, has been relieved as the commissioner and posted as the Sindh secretary for local government and house town planning. The posting was confirmed by a Sindh government notification on Tuesday. The Sindh government also removed Sindh LG secretary Roshan Sheikh from the post following his arrest by National Accountability Bureau (NAB) in land allotment case. Roshan Ali Sheikh was arrested after the Sindh High Court on Monday rejected the bail pleas of Sindh LG secretary and nine others in an illegal land allotment case. Sheikh and nine other suspects in the case had filed bail pleas in the high court. The NAB officials also arrested former Karachi administrator Fazlur Rehman and Director Karachi Water Board Naseem outside the courtroom.
