Pakistan People’s Party has decided to nominate Murtaza Wahab as its candidate for the post of Karachi’s mayor, reports said on Thursday.

Reports said that Bilawal Bhutto Zardari finalised the decision after consulting Sindh CM Murad Ali Shah and Faryal Talpur.

Wahab has served as Karachi’s administrator in the past.

Reports also said that Kashif Shoro will be PPP’s candidate for Hyderabad’s Mayor.

Wahab is the son of late PPP leader Fauzia Wahab and entered politics three years after his mother’s death in 2015.

He was first appointed as an advisor to the CM sindh and later became a Senator in 2017. In 2021 he was appointed as Karachi’s administrator, where he stayed till 2022.