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Naimatullah Khan (1 October 1930 – 25 February 2020) was a Pakistani politician who served as the City Nazim (Mayor) of
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from August 2001 to June 2005.


Early life and career

He graduated from Punjab University with a Masters in Journalism and a Law Degree from
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. He was a lawyer by profession. He was the chairman of the biggest NGO of Pakistan, Alkhidmat Foundation. As Mayor of Karachi, in 2005, he was selected to be a contesting candidate in the ''Top-20 Mayors of the World list''."Worldmayor.com's list of World's top mayors"
Retrieved 12 November 2017


Mayor of Karachi

He was the first Nāzim of Karachi after the devolution plan under President
Pervez Musharraf General Pervez Musharraf ( ur, , Parvez Muśharraf; born 11 August 1943) is a former Pakistani politician and four-star general of the Pakistan Army who became the tenth president of Pakistan after the successful military takeover of t ...
regime in Pakistan. He belonged to Jamaat-e-Islami being inspired by the thoughts of
Abul A'la Maududi Abul A'la al-Maududi ( ur, , translit=Abū al-Aʿlā al-Mawdūdī; – ) was an Islamic scholar, Islamist ideologue, Muslim philosopher, jurist, historian, journalist, activist and scholar active in British India and later, following the part ...
and
Naeem Siddiqui Maulana Naeem Siddiqui (1916 – 25 September 2002) was a Pakistani Islamic scholar, writer and politician. He was among the founder-members of the Jamaat-e-Islami and a close associate of Abul A'la Maududi and Amin Ahsan Islahi. Early life a ...
. Naimatullah Khan was elected City Nazim (Mayor) in 2001. Naimatullah Khan succeeded in getting an amount of Rs. 2900 Million for reconstruction of Karachi, city council approved various projects such as 18 flyovers over major roads, six underpasses, two signal-free roads and a huge water supply scheme for the people of Karachi. It was for the first time in the history of Karachi that all the stake holders in Karachi were incorporated for the developmental work in Karachi. The Karachi development plan comprised signal-free main roads, many fly overs, underpasses and the replacement of many water and sewerage lines. One of his projects, as the city mayor, was the ''Green Line Bus Project'' for Karachi where he imported buses from Sweden. Another publicly well-admired idea that he introduced was to involve local boys from the villages situated near the
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surrounding the 64 km coastal belt of Karachi. These local village boys, familiar with the sea, were good swimmers and were hired on a contract basis as lifeguards to help protect common beach visitors and picnickers when they attempted to swim in the sea for fun. In September 2017, Karachi beaches had to be sealed by authorities in the wake of 55 people drowning in the three months period.Karachi beaches sealed in the wake of Saturday's drowninigs
The Express Tribune (newspaper), Published 11 September 2017, retrieved 12 November 2017 Naimatullah Khan resigned from his office in June 2005, and was not re-elected in Pakistan's next 2005 local city elections.


Death

He died on 25 February 2020 at the age of 89 in
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Khan, Naimatullah 1930 births 2020 deaths Mayors of Karachi Pakistani people of Rajasthani descent University of Karachi alumni University of the Punjab alumni Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan politicians Sindh Muslim Law College alumni Leaders of the Opposition in the Provincial Assembly of Sindh