Naeem urges ECP to decide pending results

Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Karachi head Hafiz Naeemur Rehman urged the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to decide the cases, “particularly the open and shut case of six union councils”, pending before it for over two months.

He also criticised Pakistan People Party (PPP) chief Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari over his recent statement that the party should challenge the local body election schedule issued by the ECP.

The ECP recently announced the schedule for polls on 93 seats across Sindh. It includes 11 seats in Karachi. The PPP and JI are locked in battle over the seat of Karachi’s mayor.

Naeem urged the ECP to complete the electoral process within the month of April “so Karachiites could exercise their right to have an elected local government”. He also accused the PPP of trying to ‘buy the votes’ of PTI councilors in order to get the mayor’s seat.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 22^nd, 2023.