Justice (Retd) Saeed uz Zaman will be made the new governor for Sindh putting an end to a 14-year-long rule of the current governor Dr Ishrat ul Ebad.
The decision came during a meeting of President Mamnoon Hussain and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
Zaman has remained the Chief Justice of Pakistan from July 1999 till December 2005.
During the former dictator General (Retd) Pervez Musharraf's rule Zaman refused to take oath under the Provisional Constitutional Order (PCO).
In 2008 he ran as presidential candidate from Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz.
Zaman said that he had learnt that he learnt about the development through media reports.
He confirmed that the prime minister in a phone call had discussed the issue. He said that maintaining peace was the most important issue in Karachi.
The current governor Dr Ishrat ul Ebad took oath in December 2002 and has been the longest serving governor in Sindh.
Dr Ebad stirred controversy after former Karachi mayor and Pak Sarzameen Party chief Mustafa Kamal hurled corruption allegations at him.
Calling him 'Rishwat ul Ebad' in a fiery press talk on October 17 he demanded that he should be placed on the Exit Control List.
