Local governments in Sindh: President promises to address intra-party grievances
In an effort to pacify federal ministers from Sindh who are angry at the restoration of the 2001 local bodies’ system in the province, President Asif Ali Zardari has assured them that their grievances will be redressed once a new set of local government laws are tabled in the provincial legislature.
Meanwhile, Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah assured the provincial lawmakers that the revival of the local government system was temporary and the situation would be redressed in consultation with all coalition partners.
“We had a candid discussion and apprised the president about the party workers’ reaction. The president briefed us about the situation which led to this development. He (Zardari) said he holds the party’s interest supreme and promised us that our reservations will be taken into account before finally approving the local government laws,” said a minister who attended the meeting. This meeting was followed by some more meetings on Thursday night. Zardari also met some of the ministers individually later.
Members of the PPP’s coalition allies – the ANP, the PML-Q and Pir Pagara’s PML-F from Sindh – have been voicing strong resentment on the deal PPP clinched with MQM through Senator Babar Awan.
Interestingly Babar Awan who is being censured for this deal was not invited in the meeting. Rehman Malik, however, took part in the meeting.
Others who attended it included Makhdoom Amin Fahim, Abdul Hafeez Sheikh, Moula Bakhsh Chandio, Ghous Bux Khan Mahar, Syed Khursheed Shah, Asim Hussain, Naveed Qamar, and Firdous Ashiq Awan.
In Karachi, the Sindh chief minister said that the government had temporarily revived the local government system and the provincial government would either amend it or bring a new system altogether in consultation with all coalition partners.
“We want to bring the system, which will be acceptable to all parties and people of Sindh,” he said.
He was addressing a press conference at the Chief Minister’s House after presiding over the PPP’s Sindh Council meeting.
“Coalition partners, who have been talking over the issue for about eight to 10 months, agreed to either bring a new system or amend the one introduced in 2001, but MQM sought more time in this regard,” he said.
When asked about the government’s decision over the dual system in Karachi, Hyderabad and the rest of the province, he said: “We did not make any mistake,” he said.
When asked how the governor could issue the new ordinances when the assembly had passed bills on the same issue, he said: “The office of governor is also part of legislature and he can issue any ordinance on the advice of the chief minister,” he said, adding when the assembly “is not in session, the governor can issue an ordinance, which can later be tabled in the Sindh Assembly”.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 12th, 2011.
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@ Salman if you saying why people dont go to lahore other pindi my friend karachi is port city and any where in the world peoples migrate and settled there if new york mayer and senator are jews but there is peoples around the world lived because it is port city and no body mind if karachi govt runs by muhajirs and by the way i raised in karachi and my beautifull wife is also muhajir i like these peoples.
The real grevience should be from the qualified displaced Karachiites who have lost jobs due to quota system discriminated against them in favour of the Sindhis.
@Salman Orangiwala: Can you please define "interior Sindh"? and who do you refer to as "Outsiders"? You are living in a city of Sindh and Sindhis are not "outsiders". I am sure this is just a slip of tongue, if not then I doubt if you were in full control of your senses when you wrote this. Outsiders came in, live here and still identify themselves as "Muhajir" even after 60 years, you being one of them (apparently, at least)!
A separate administrative system! What planet do you live on? Stop being a cry baby yourself before advising others. Open your eyes and look at the bigger picture. Why can't the LG system be run on the same boundaries of the province which existed before LG Ordinance 2001?
Everyone knows who is calling to cut the land into pieces. It's not just Karachi being taken as "Mal-e-Ghanimat" its an entire province being tailored and cut into pieces to suit a gun-totting and trigger-happy organization a.k.a "party". Isn't this tantamount to an administrative disintegration of the province? There is no justification for this WHATSOEVER!
Your hate-speech and comments with separatist streak serve no purpose except fueling fire and widening gaps in inter-community ties, warmth in which is already reaching its lowest.
You and I very well know what the need of the hour is: UNITY and nothing else. "Live and let live," I can see you believe in this and shall support you always.
@FUS Agreed!
@ Tanoli , please read the post of fus carefully " "Most of the People don’t go to Lahore or Islamabad but come to Karachi because they know they will still find a job, they will not face same discrimination on jobs as in other places............"
I appointed one Tanoli in my junior cadre , he excelled and promoted , subsequently brought in three of his brothers and got them appointed all .Not to mention I was the one behind their appointmets .
See and feel the difference ........................now people like you are of the view that we are biased ..............huh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If we had been so unwelcoming like Lahore or other cities ofr the last two decades , there would have been less Tanolis to make things so ominous for us .
Urdu speaking peoples got good margin in bearocracy of pakistan because they were educated in the time of partition and still they are in good numbers karachi is financial hub of pakistan and most of white coller jobs muhajirs have and still they cry for quota system is it not funny qouta sys was for peoples of rural areas because pakistan is poor country and with limited resouces its can not devoleped other area so fast so those people come to karachi and get some education i dont understand if karachi not treated well then who else does in pakistan but other peoples dont killed there fellow country men and what a shame if they migrated so what about punjabis who died more than any body else but they are more pro pakistan than any others.
@Gul ,it is time you wake up and get out off the utopia .
-------------Comapring Thar's literacy rate to Karach.!!!! Yes ,the whole Interior Sindh is infested with "Doctors" and " Engineers" ...and we know how these dgrees are awarded ... But how many of them are CAs /CMAs/ACCAs/CPAs ?????
See ,,,,these internationally acclamed professionnal certifications are awarded on pure merit . And do you stand a chance ???
ONLY in Sindh there is a quota system of Rural and Urban .....Reason is so obvious . Infact this ill thought and prejudiced law has not only infested incompetent people to grab the high posts in every strata of the administration making it spoiled to the core but also has broken down the very fabric of MERIT and COMPETENCY.
So , pray, stop being a cry baby ,
The Waderas might be Haravard or Yale alumni , but why dont they benefit the Interior of Sindh with their prowes , why sitting in posh haceindas of Karachi ?
Stop dreaming of cutting Karachi into size to fit your requirements , Live and let live .
@Salman Orangiwala: Quota system was implemented on the demands of Urdu speaking community after the language riots of 1972. Sindhis never demanded it and have suffered much from it. It should be abolished and pure merit be the only criterion. Nobody is imported from interior Sindh, whole Sindh is their land and Karachi is its capital city. Think of those who have come from outside Sindh or Pakistan. Unfortunately Karachi is not the most literate even in Sindh, Larkana, Khairpur, Thar is more literate than Karachi. The people whom you call waderas are well educated and mostly from the renowned international universities. Karachi is the most violent city of Pakistan for last many years. In fact its the most violent city of the world. Also it is the most undemocratic city of the country, where there are no go areas, and people are not allowed to express their will freely, where there is least turn out in all the elections, where people receive dead bodies in bags, where journalist, lawyers or even judges are hostage to the worst terrorism of its kind. Where incidences like, 12 Rabiul awal, 12 May, 18 October, 9 April happen.
If you want to administer Karachi in a democratic and dignified way divide it into at least 20 districts, to make it manageable. London which is less than half the population of Karachi is divided into 34 districts.
Any one trying to oppose the Local Government system in Karachi is uneducated to be a leader and undemocratic and working against the people of Karachi and their wishes. People who do not contribute towards the prosperity of Karachi should not have a say. Karachi belongs to the blood and sweat of Karachiites. The socio economic engine of Karachi knows what is best for Karachi and Pakistan. The interior Sindhs should support this, as a prosperous Karachi will be a great role model for Sindh, its prosperity and success will shine on Sindh too. So what is the big cow about???
Just go through any talk shows on the Idiot Box these days , it seems Karachi is a " Mal e Ghanimat " .
Karachi is being ruled by psuedo-literate Wadera and its Bureaucracy , both ,imported from Interior Sindh in the name of quota system for the last 60 years .
Why these outsiders would decide what the Karachiite should do ? Karachi is the most literate of them all and these good-for-nothings want to dictate their terms to RULE over it !!!.
It is time Karachi demand a separate administrative unit and select their own Administration , like the time-tested and true democtratic sytem for the masse followed in the mega cities in the world around .
Most of PPP's leaders from sindh do not want a local body system in Karachi and Hyderabad in which the peoples' representatives (elected nazims or concillors etc) have powers. The reason is they dont have any representations in these two most developed cities of the province. These leaders must learn norms of democracy which is mainly to respect the mandate of the people. if they dont do this then PPP should avoid calling itself a democratic party.
if there are good intentions, the proper and democratic way is to improve the existing system while keeping in view the transfer of power at grassroots level, besides taking into account the past experiences.
The local bodies system is a nursery and platform for the development of future leaders of Pakistan.
What exactly these grieved parties want ? That we go to a system which is highly nondemocratic and which no sane nation in the world use anymore ? It is a shame that we, the people of Pakistan, select these scums and let them ruin our lives. Only if it was easy to file case against them for ruining our government system.