{"id":51624,"date":"2026-04-15T17:43:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T17:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=51624"},"modified":"2026-04-15T17:43:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T17:43:30","slug":"k-electric-appoints-shaheryar-chishti-as-new-board-of-directors-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=51624","title":{"rendered":"K-Electric appoints Shaheryar Chishti as new board of directors chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2026\/04\/1519273371077cb.webp\" \/><\/p>\n<p>K-Electric\u2019s (KE) stated in a disclosure to the  Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) on Wednesday that Shaheryar Chishti had been appointed as the new chairman of the power utility\u2019s board of directors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are pleased to notify you that following the election of directors during the extraordinary general meeting held on April 2, 2026, the board of directors, in its meeting held on April 15, 2026, has appointed Shaheryar Chishty as the chairman of the board,\u201d the disclosure, seen by <em>Dawn<\/em>, read.<\/p>\n<p>It added, \u201cYou may please inform the TRE Certificate holders of the exchange accordingly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Chishti\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link--external\" href=\"https:\/\/ke.com.pk\/board-of-directors\/\">profile<\/a> on KE\u2019s website, he has had a long career in investment banking and also served as a board member in various power distribution companies on a pro bono basis.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in March, K-Electric had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1984838\">appointed<\/a> Syed Taha as its new chief executive officer (CEO), replacing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1973077\">interim head<\/a> Adeeb Ahmad.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmad was appointed as the interim CEO on February 13 after KE\u2019s previous CEO, Moonis Alvi, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1971490\/k-electric-ceo-moonis-alvi-steps-down-pledges-smooth-transition\"><u>stepped down<\/u><\/a>, days after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1970858\"><u>getting a clean chit<\/u><\/a> from then-Sindh Governor Kamran Tessori in a workplace harassment case.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1992002\/k-electric-appoints-shaheryar-chishti-as-new-board-of-directors-chairman\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>K-Electric\u2019s (KE) stated in a disclosure to the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) on Wednesday that Shaheryar Chishti had been appointed as the new chairman of the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertaonment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}