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Chief Minister of Sindh

Head of government of the Province of Sindh

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ3694864 ↗
Source-derived summary

The chief minister of Sindh (Sindhi: وزيراعلي, Urdu: وزیر اعلىٰ—Wazīr-e Aʿlá) is the elected head of government of Sindh and serves alongside the Chief Secretary.

The chief minister is the head of the provincial government alongside the Chief Secretary. The Chief Minister of Sindh is elected by the Provincial Assembly of Sindh and is the leader of the provincial Legislature. The office of the Chief Minister is located in Karachi, the capital of the Sindh province and is known as the CM Secretariat.

Eligibility

The Constitution of Pakistan sets the principle of qualifications which one must meet to be eligible to the office of the Chief Minister. A Chief Minister must be:

a citizen of Pakistan

should be a member of the provincial legislature.

The Chief Minister is elected by a majority in the provincial legislative assembly. This is procedurally established by the vote of confidence in the legislative assembly, as suggested by the majority party who is the appointing authority.

Editorial summary

“Chief Minister of Sindh” enters the record as head of government of the Province of Sindh. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Chief, Minister and Sindh can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current 161-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Chief, Minister and Sindh.
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Why this record matters

“Chief Minister of Sindh” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Chief, Minister and Sindh provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3694864. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Chief Minister of Sindh” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.