KARACHI, April 23: The government on Tuesday posted Shoaib Siddiqui, a grade-21 officer, as the new Karachi commissioner, relieving the incumbent commissioner Hashim Zaidi.

Mr Siddiqui assumed his new responsibly in the evening.

Mr Zaidi had been posted as the administrator of the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation against an existing vacancy. He was already having the additional charge of the administrator.

Mr Siddiqui, whose first posting was in the Capital Development Authority in 1983, comes with a diversified experience as he had been transferred 29 times in his around 30-year career. His last posting was as an additional secretary in the president’s secretariat, which he held for around 47 days.

Besides serving in the federal government, Mr Siddiqui has served the Sindh government for a long time in different departments,including the excise and taxation, home, land utilisation, fisheries and livestock, sports and youth affairs, finance, food, etc.

He had also served as deputy commissioner of Karachi East, Central and South districts.

Mr Siddiqui had also served in the KMC, the defunct Karachi Development Authority as well as in the defunct city district government.