Mayor of City syd.Mustafa Kamal

Mustafa Kamal is the District City Nazim (Mayor) of Karachi. Mr. Kamal is one of the well-known members, Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), which is the second largest political party in Pakistan after PPP (PML(N) second biggest but being considered Punjabi Nationalist and confined to Punjab only).

Biography

He was born in 1971 in Karachi,Sindh. He studied in Karachi till Intermediate and left for Malaysia where he completed an Associate Diploma in Business Executive studies. He earned his MBA in Marketing from the University of Wales (UK). Before becoming the Mayor of Karachi, he served as a minister for Information Technology with the Sindh government.

Involvement with MQM

He has been associated with the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) for more than a decade. He was working as a call operator in 90, which is the main office of MQM in Azizabad, Karachi. He was nominated as Mayor (City Nazim) by the Haq Parast panel, in local bodies election. He won by 1,493 votes against 800 votes obtained by his main rival, former city nazim Naimatullah Khan, fielded by the Tameer-i-Karachi Ittehad of the combined opposition parties.

August 2007

Residents of Defence Housing Authority (DHA),the most prestigious neighborhood of Karachi, wished to pay taxes to CDGK. They even praised City government's efforts to carry out relief operations in their area.

The city government has started work on 3 multistoried parking plazas two in Saddar Town and one in Clifton area and these would be unique and one of its kind projects in Pakistan.

Achievements

• The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Geneva has granted ISO certification 9001 to City Government Karachi for providing best services to its citizens.

• Mustafa Kamal was praised by the Supreme Court of Pakistan for his efforts to make Karachi a mega city and to carry out relief operations.

• Reputed journal, Foreign Policy in its report has declared Karachi Nazim, Syed Mustafa Kamal among the three enerjatic mayors in the world of the year 2008 .

• The Foreign Policy magazine of the United States has chosen Karachi Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal as the second among the best three mayors in the world for 2008.