{"id":13093,"date":"2026-03-13T12:56:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T12:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/?p=13093"},"modified":"2026-03-13T12:56:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T12:56:25","slug":"pml-n-stalwart-nehal-hashmi-sworn-in-as-sindh-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/?p=13093","title":{"rendered":"PML-N stalwart Nehal Hashmi sworn in as Sindh governor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

PML-N stalwart Nehal Hashmi on Friday was sworn in as the new governor of Sindh, following his surprise appointment a day earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sindh High Court Chief Justice Zafar Ahmed Rajput administered the oath at a ceremony held in Karachi. Senior leaders were present at the televised ceremony, including PPP leader Saeed Ghani and Sindh Local Government Minister Nasir Hussain Shah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Thursday, President Asif Ali Zardari approved<\/a> Hashmi\u2019s appointment as Sindh governor, hours after it was announced that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif recommended his appointment to the post previously held by MQM\u2019s Kamran Tessori.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A brief statement issued by the PM Office said that PM Shehbaz met Hashmi at the PM House and decided to nominate him as the governor of Sindh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hashmi is a veteran politician who last served<\/u><\/a> as a PML-N senator after his election in March 2015. However, a controversial speech he made in May 2017 landed him in hot water, culminating in his disqualification<\/u><\/a> in February 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The surprise move to appoint Hashmi has drawn a strong reaction <\/a>from ally MQM-P, which complained that it had not been taken on board before the decision to remove its nominee from office, calling it a \u201cgrave mistake\u201d by Islamabad and vowing to soon decide its future course of action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking to the media at the Governor\u2019s House on Thursday, the outgoing governor, Tessori, said that if he was punished for raising issues related to Gul Plaza <\/a>and the \u2018Karachi Bachao Conference\u2019, he would continue to speak up for the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He remarked that he could reveal who had removed him and on whose instructions, but he chose not to do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tessori congratulated the newly nominated Sindh governor, saying he had seen the news on TV channels and wished him success. He urged Hashmi to continue the initiatives launched during his tenure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNo one remains in office forever,\u201d he said, adding that he had never been a \u201cmute, deaf or dummy governor\u201d and did not want to be one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PML-N stalwart Nehal Hashmi on Friday was sworn in as the new governor of Sindh, following his surprise appointment a day earlier. Sindh High Court Chief Justice Zafar Ahmed Rajput administered the oath at a ceremony held in Karachi. Senior leaders were present at the televised ceremony, including PPP leader Saeed Ghani and Sindh Local […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"no","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_3859443944190656_828796993651875":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[{"account":"facebook_3859443944190656_828796993651875","service":"facebook","timestamp":1773406608,"status":"success"}],"rop_publish_now_status":"done","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13093","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pakistan"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13095,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13093\/revisions\/13095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}