In a significant first, the Sindh government has appointed a female deputy commissioner in Hyderabad.
Ayesha Abro, an officer of PAS (BS-18), has been appointed with immediate effect. A notification was circulated on Monday in this regard.
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“Ms. Ayesha Abro, an officer of PAS (BS-18), Deputy Secretary Energy Department, is transferred and posted with immediate effect and until further orders as Deputy Commissioner Hyderabad, vice Syed Aijaz Ali Shah, an officer of Ex-PCS (BS-19).”
Ayesha was serving as the Deputy Secretary Energy Department before assuming the DC office in Hyderabad.
She’s the first woman DC appointed in the history of Sindh, and third overall after Ammara Khattak (2016 – Abbottabad) and Saliha Saeed (2018 – Lahore) in Pakistan.
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The decision of the provincial government has been well-received on the internet as netizens are seeing it as a significant step towards gender parity.
Prior to this, Suman Kumari from Sindh became the country’s first Hindu woman to take charge as a civil judge after passing a competitive examination.
Kumari, of Qambar-Shahdadkot, was posted in her native district.
