On Thursday, protests and clashes erupted in Karachi after PPP candidate Murtaza Wahab wins in the Karachi mayor election defeating JI candidate Hafiz Naeemur Rehman.
According to unofficial and unverified results, the PPP stalwart received 173 votes, while the JI received 160 votes despite PTI assurances of support.
Video shows activists from both political parties throwing stones at each other and smashing the windscreens of vehicles parked outside the Arts Council, where the mayoral election was held.
As the situation escalated, police and Rangers intervened and began baton-charging the political workers in an attempt to disperse them. Nearly two dozen people have been arrested for their involvement in violence, according to police.
As clashes erupted in Karachi as Murtaza Wahab wins Karachi mayor election, the security officials managed to bring the situation under control outside the Arts Council.
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PPP Chairman and Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari congratulated Wahab on his election as Karachi mayor and stated that all elected PPP representatives, including Wahab and Salman Abdullah Murad, now bear heavy responsibilities.
The foreign minister added that this success is the result of the people of Karachi’s long struggle and sacrifices and that the politics of hatred and division in the country’s economic hub has reached its logical conclusion.
“Democracy is the best revenge,” the PPP chairman said again.
Bilawal also stated that Karachi will now become the cradle of development, peace, and brotherhood and that the city’s local government problems will be resolved without discrimination.
Murtaza Wahab is a Pakistani politician who is the current mayor of Karachi since 2023 Adviser to the Chief Minister of Sindh on Rules and regulations. He was a member of the Senate of Pakistan from August 2017 to March 2018.
On 30 April 2015, he was inducted into the provincial Sindh cabinet of Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah and was appointed as adviser to the Chief Minister on the law. On 21 May 2015, he was given the status of minister.
He is the son of famous PPP politician Fauzia Wahab.
