JI demands deployment of army for LG polls

Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Karachi chief Engr Hafiz Naeem ur Rehman has demanded the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to write a letter to the defence ministry, summoning the army to Karachi for the upcoming local bodies polls on October 23.

The JI leader made the demand at a press conference held at Idara Noor-e-Haq, the JI Karachi headquarters on Friday.

Speaking on the occasion, he said that the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) government in Sindh arranges police contingents for the security of cricket matches in Karachi, the protocol for provincial ministers and even to disperse marches in Islamabad, but the same regime comes up with the lack of policemen as an excuse to avoid holding local bodies polls, and the party still claims to be the trailblazer of democracy.

He said that the PPP government was using the catastrophe of the flood as a shield and pretext to avoid holding local government elections. He asked Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah to disclose how many policemen from his personal protocol were sent to the flood-affected areas for the rescue and relief operations. The JI leader also demanded the government disclose the exact number of the policemen deployed in the flood-affected areas.