Qaim Ali Shah. PHOTO: EXPRESS/ FILE
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah said on Monday that local bodies elections will be held in the province once the security situation of Karachi improves, Express News reported.
"We have asked for a six months' time from the Supreme Court to hold elections," said Shah, adding that peace can only be achieved through the joint efforts of the federal and provincial governments.
He said that meeting with the Minister of Interior, Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan proved to be productive.
Khan visited Karachi on Monday to be briefed on the security situation of Karachi.
Shah’s Pakistan Peoples Party has been at loggerheads over a local bodies election with other parties from Sindh when it first came to power in 2008. Earlier this year, the government, having seen the back of their long term coalition partners, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, reinstated its preferred local government system of 1979 and had in its election campaign promised local body elections.
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Contrary to what you say Mr. Chief Minister, the law and order situation will profoundly improve if the LBO polls are held on schedule and the PPP is roundly defeated. Salams
To quote: "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." Plato (brainyquote.com/)
Remember the adage, "Where there is a will, there is a way." (Anonymous)
By depriving sindhs urban areas from their metrpolitan rights, the ppp fovernment is pushing sindh towards division on urban-rural lines hence reviving the phoenix which had now been dead for decades. History will judge how myopic were sindh's rulers.
They don't want to hold LB polls in Sindh because they are afraid that MQM will regain its popularity due to its good LB performance in the past (2005-2009).
@S Khattak why not PPP can any thing winning football world cup is not big deal !!!!!!
Qaim, Qaim, and Qaim LB Poll, Now.
Or perhaps when Pakistan wins the football world cup?
law and order improves = never!
Absolute lack of political will to hold LB polls