Governor (Pakistan)

A governor (Urdu: گورنر—Gawarnar) is the head of a province, appointed by the president of Pakistan on the advice of the prime minister. The governor is the nominal head of the provincial executive and the representative of the federal in their province. Articles 101 to 105 of the Constitution of Pakistan deal with the appointment, conditions, and duties of a governor.^[1]

A governor should be eligible to be elected as a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan, and should be at least 35 years old. They should also be a registered voter of the concerned province, and should not hold any office of profit. The chief justice of the concerned province's High Court administers the oath of office, after which the governor is not eligible for the election as a member of the Parliament of Pakistan and the Provincial Assemblies as long as they are in office.

In case of a governor's absence, the speaker of the Provincial Assembly becomes the acting governor of the province.^[2]

Current governors in Pakistan

The table below lists the currently-serving governors of Pakistan as of January 2023.

Province	Name	Took office (tenure length)	Party		Notes
Balochistan (list)	Sheikh Jaffar Khan Mandokhail	6 May 2024 (291 days)	PMLN
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (list)	Faisal Karim Kundi	4 May 2024 (293 days)	PPP
Punjab (list)	Sardar Saleem Haider Khan	10 May 2024 (287 days)	PPP
Sindh (list)	Kamran Tessori[3]	10 October 2022 (2 years, 134 days)	MQM-P		Appointed by President Arif Alvi on 9 October 2022[4]
Gilgit-Baltistan (list)	Syed Mehdi Shah[5]	15 August 2022 (2 years, 240 days)	PPP

Heads of administrative territories

Territory	Name	Took office (tenure length)	Party		Notes
Azad Jammu and Kashmir (list)	Sultan Mehmood Chaudhry[6] (President)	25 August 2021 (3 years, 180 days)	PTI

See also

• List of presidents of Pakistan
• Chief Secretary (Pakistan)
• List of current Pakistani chief ministers

References

1. "Chapter 1: "The Governors." of Part IV: "Provinces"". www.pakistani.org. Retrieved 28 July 2022.
2. Hamid, Shahid (16 April 2022). "President Alvi accepts Shah Farman's resignation". The Express Tribune. Retrieved 27 July 2022.
3. "Acting Governor administers oath to chairperson SPSC". Dawn. 10 October 2022. Retrieved 16 October 2022.
4. Tunio, Hafeez (18 April 2022). "MQM-P's Kamran khan Tessori appointed Sindh governor". The Express Tribune. Retrieved 16 October 2022.
5. "Mehdi Shah appointed G-B governor". The Express Tribune. 15 August 2022. Retrieved 13 January 2023.
6. "Sultan Mahmood becomes AJK's 28th president". The Express Tribune. 17 August 2021. Retrieved 28 July 2022.