Local Government

Water policy transfers supply, sanitation schemes to local govt department

CM Gandapur offers increased support to LG reps

Citizens’ grievances remain unaddressed due to a paucity of funding for elected representatives

Interim Chief Minister Justice (retd) Shah assures offices for village councils in tribal districts a priority

Complain that for past two years, provincial government has implemented a policy of withholding funds

Warn to escalate their protest by preventing any officer from entering office

Pakistan’s biggest governance problem is lopsided decorum of distribution of powers

MQM-P’s Senior Deputy Convenor inaugurates party's central election office in Shah Faisal

Previously, Karachi had seven district chairmen, but now there are twenty-five towns

Local government and housing minister seeks information about officers facing inquiries initiated by courts

Says will form local govt in Karachi with PTI, distances from ‘violent protests’

JI leader Naeem threatens 'sit-ins across city' if results not announced on time

PML-N trails behind; independent candidates perform well

Having spent lives inside boundary walls of mud homes, they claim space alongside men

CM calls for joint strategy for system’s success

LG bodies in Rawalpindi district fail to prepare budget

PPP chairman says people chose a peaceful and progressive Sindh by rejecting politics of hate and division

Draft of new law envisages revival of UCs, appointment of municipal magistrates

Initial results show JUI in second place, ruling BAP third

Spokesperson cites technical flaws for the move

PTI, MQM-P and others join hands against provincial government, announce sit-in in Karachi next week

Hundreds of protesters of Jamaat-e-Islami have been protesting outside Sindh assembly against LG law passed by PPP

Ruling PPP approves law to place Solid Waste Management Board under mayors of the metropolitan/municipal corporations

The local govts were restored last March after a two year-long legal battle

Senior leaders asked to take on board the ruling party’s allies regarding the decision

Apex court says dissolution of local bodies means disenfranchisement of people

Says restored officials can't be accommodated in new structure

Three-judge bench headed by CJ Gulzar will hear pleas against Punjab LG Act

Govt repeals Village Panchayats and Neighbourhood Councils Act 2019

CM’s aide tells ECP it will be unconstitutional to determine constituencies on interim census report

Provincial govt submits report in SC, seeks concurrent elections across country

Will issue final notification for village and neighborhood councils’ delimitation on March 18

ECP proposes phase-wise LG polls in Punjab, K-P

SC issues notices to ECP, AGP and K-P advocate general for next hearing

Province becomes first to adopt, circulate citizen-inclusive guidelines developed under SNG-II programme

Both PTI, MQM-P filed petitions last month for devolution of powers

Cabinet approves import of 0.3m tonnes of sugar

Publication of delimitation list deferred for 15 days

ECP announces preliminary lists of constituencies will be issued on Sept 23

Roshan Ali Sheikh, others accused of misusing powers, allotting land illegally

The mayor stated that drains in the metropolis had not been desilted since 2018

Effective local governments have been a feature of the dictatorial set-ups to fill the political vacuum they create

PM apprised of draft law for local government by Punjab law minister

Lawmakers, civil society members discuss Covid-19 situation

Realising the idea of local governance reforms may seem pretty easy on paper. But it is as difficult in practice.

Elections of cantonment boards were conducted in 2015 and the delimited Cantts were formulated as per the 1998 census

No drinking water, sewerage projects launched in the first half of fiscal year

CM Syed Murad Ali Shah says Sindh govt has paid electricity bills of over Rs22b in last five years

Petitioner requests SHC to direct ECP to hold LG elections

CM claims that local govts were made a ‘state within the state’ in 2002