 However, by early 1903, the Ottomans had already appointed the first mudir – Yusuf Effendi in Al Wakrah.Abdülkarim Vefik Efendi (known to British intelligence as "Agha Abdul Karim bin Agha Hasan"), a former tax official in Qatif, was the mudir-designate for Khawr al Udayd.In March 1903, British sources indicated that the mudir-designate was reassigned elsewhere.