Waseem Akhtar | |
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| 29th Mayor of Karachi | |
| In office 30 August 2016 – 29 August 2020 | |
| Deputy | Arshad Vohra (until March 2019) |
| Preceded by | Syed Mustafa Kamal |
| Succeeded by | Murtaza Wahab |
| Pakistani Parliamentarian from Karachi, Sindh | |
| In office May 2008 – May 2013 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 25 November 1955 Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan |
| Political party |  MQM-P (2016-present) |
| Residence | Karachi, |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Profession | Telecommunication Engineer |
Waseem Akhtar (Urdu: وسیم اختر; born 25 November 1955) is a Pakistani politician of the Muttahida Quami Movement (P). He served as the Mayor of Karachi, Pakistan's largest city, from 2016 to 2020. Shortly after his nomination as Mayor, he was controversially arrested for what his supporters saw as political reasons.
Akhtar worked as a telecommunication engineer for AT&T in Saudi Arabia for ten years. After returning to Pakistan, he started radio sets and telephone sets assembly business which later expanded to pharmaceutical distribution.[1]
- ^ "Waseem Akhtar: The party man". 14 March 2016.