LocalGovernment

“The party of the martyrs has martyred whole Sindh, said PML-F general secretary Imitiaz Shaikh.

Dr Safdar Sarki says people will not remain silent and will fight for their rights

Nationalist leaders, including Jalal Mehmood Shah, had made the accusations after SPLGO was passed.

Speaker Sindh Assembly also slams Jalal Mehmood Shah for dubbing him a traitor by approving LG system ordinance.

Pir Pagaro says he will mobilise people of Sindh, tell them how local government system is harmful for them.

Many PPP members complain of PPP's capitulation to MQM, and on Monday they looked more defeated than the protesters.

Several cars and buses were vandalised on the Sukkur bypass.

Shah claimed that assembly’s speaker Nisar Khuhro should have let the MPAs sit on the opposition benches.

After a stormy session inside the Sindh Assembly, the rants continued outside the legislature.

Erstwhile PPP allies stage sit-in protest, term supporters of law ‘traitors’.

PML-F, ANP and NPP members protested as the law minister read out the ordinance.

The MPAs are expected to be present at 10am

The move comes three weeks after the ordinance was promulgated.

If all requests are allowed, the opposition in Sindh would be of 18 members.

Say they will stage protests across the province every Wednesday.

The three major highways of the province will be blocked by protesters during the strike.

SPLGO 2012 was signed by the governor on September 7.

Shah said that a coalition partner had asked the government not to end the commissionerate system.

People are still unsure whethe­r the town system has been revive­d.

Multiple protests will be organised across Sindh till the ordinance is withdrawn.

Govt gets deputy commissioners transferred, more changes expected.

Nationalists suspect garment factory fire was a ploy to make them fail.

PML-F makes history by protesting with nationalists, lawyers boycott court.

PML-N, Jamaat-e-Islami and PTI announce three days of mourning.

Nationalists parties acknowledge disaster, but vow to push on with strike.

Ministers belonging to three parties had resigned after new ordinance was brought forward.

PML-F leader Jam Madad Ali says ordinance equal to fraud with people and coalition partners.

Haider regretted that some nationalist leaders were drawing parallels between the proposed strike and May 12, 2007.

Khursheed Shah confident that PPP will win over allies.

The nationalists are gearing up for a province-wide strike on September 13 against the Sindh Peoples LG Ordinance.

Petition asks why an ordinance was rushed instead of allowing a vote.

Party leader Ghous Ali Shah announced on Saturday.

MQM chief skewers the ANP for wanting a ‘British-era system’.

Ordinance needs to be voted into law in 90 days by the Sindh Assembly.

Ordinance may have been spurred by politics but end result may not be all that salutary as far as Sindh is concerned.

Federal Minister Khuda Bux Rajar says he will not resume office till the party leadership asks him to.

MQM chief says local government system is the basis of democracy.

Information minister says government ready to talk to all parties who have reservations.

System would bitterly divide rural and urban populace, would lead to more complexities in society, states petition.

Five ANP, PML-F, NPP ministers quit; ANP boycotts NA and Senate sessions.

Altaf Hussain says those raising a hue and cry over new LG system are on payrolls of hidden hands.

Palejo is leading a rally to Islamabad to show his and his supporters’ love for Sindh.

“This ordinance is a new conspiracy to divide Sindh,” said the party’s Sindh Secretary General Saleem Zia.

Altaf Hussain appeals to all political parties to support the policy in interest of Sindh’s people.

SUP chief claims that new ordinance is an administrative attack on Sindh.

In a mix of the 1979 and 2001 set-ups, five metropolitan corporations created.

PML-F ministers have already submitted their resignation to Pir Pagara.

Nationalist parties along with PML-N and PML-F decide to stage demonstrations outside Governor, CM Houses.

Qaim Ali Shah calls Syed for negoti­ations after ANP staged walk-out from Nation­al Assemb­ly.

Reports posited that the new system will be called the ‘Peoples Metropolitan Corporation 2012’.