Murtaza Wahab

Murtaza Wahab Siddiqui is a Pakistani politician who is the current Mayor of Karachi. He was a member of the Senate of Pakistan from August 2017 to March 2018. Early life and education The son of the late senior PPP politician Fauzia Wahab (1956-2012), Murtaza has earned his Bachelors of Commerce degree from the University of Karachi before pursuing an LLB from the University of London and Bar at Law from Lincoln's Inn, after which he became an advocate of the Sindh High Court. Political career 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 law. On 21 May 2015, he was given the status of minister.