The Mayor of Islamabad ( ur, ) is the

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who heads

Islamabad Islamabad (; ur, , ) is the capital city of Pakistan. It is the country's ninth-most populous city, with a population of over 1.2 million people, and is federally administered by the Pakistani government as part of the Islamabad Capital ...

and the surrounding

capital territory A capital district, capital region or capital territory is normally a specially designated administrative division where a country's seat of government is located. As such, in a federal model of government, no state or territory has any poli ...

's municipal administration.

Local government system

The office of the mayor was created pursuant to the Islamabad Capital Territory Local Government Act 2015, passed by the

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and

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in 2015. Islamabad has 50 Union Councils. In addition to the mayor, three Deputy mayors are also elected to the office.

Administrative powers

The mayor leads the

Metropolitan Corporation Islamabad The Metropolitan Corporation Islamabad (MCI) ( Urdu: بلدیہ عظمی اسلام آباد) is a municipal authority established under the ICT Local Government Act 2015 in Islamabad Capital Territory The Islamabad Capital Territory ( ur, , ...

(MCI) whose executive branch consists of 77 elected officials; comprising 50 union council chairmen and 27 reserved seatholders. The IMC has 11,000 employees and its functions include urban planning, road maintenance, environment control, building control, water supply, sanitation, and other municipal services for the

Islamabad Capital Territory The Islamabad Capital Territory ( ur, , translit=Vafāqī Dār-alhakūmat) is the only federal territory of Pakistan. Located between the provinces of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, it includes the country's capital city of Islamabad. The t ...

. The mayor also chairs the Capital Development Authority (CDA) which has around 4,500 employees; its scope is mainly confined to estate management, sector developments and project executions.

List of mayors

Sheikh Anser Aziz Sheikh Anser Aziz is a Pakistani politician who was mayor of Islamabad The Mayor of Islamabad ( ur, ) is the mayor who heads Islamabad and the surrounding capital territory's municipal administration. Local government system The office of t ...

was the first mayor of Islamabad. He took his oath on 4 March 2016. Following the announcement of an inquiry by the

National Accountability Bureau The National Accountability Bureau ( ur, ; abbreviated NAB) is an autonomous and constitutionally established federal institution responsible to build efforts against corruption and prepare critical national economic intelligence assessments ...

for alleged corruption and misuse of authority, Aziz tendered his resignation. The mayor's office is located in G-6, Islamabad.

Mayoral election history

Mayoral election 2015

PML-(N) held a two-thirds majority in the Islamabad Metropolitan Corporation.

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