The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has decided to support the nationalists’ strike against the new local government ordinance on September 13.
“The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) betrayed the people of Sindh when it introduced the Sindh Local Government Ordinance 2012,” said PTI’s Sindh President Nadir Akmal Laghari on Sunday at a press conference. “The PTI will support what is in the interest of the people of Sindh.” He added that his party was not against the local government system in general, and that it wanted powers to be devolved to the grass roots level.
Laghari said the PPP and its coalition partners should have tabled the ordinance in the provincial assembly so that lawmakers could have debated it. He suspects that the “dual system” of governance would create an ethnic divide in the province. While talking about the upcoming elections, Laghari claimed that the present government had already started pre-poll rigging and that the “names of a large number of voters in Karachi were missing from the electoral rolls.”
Published in The Express Tribune, September 10th, 2012.
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Pathetic!! PTI should know that electoral roles are not ready till now, and you cannot creat an ethnic divide when two of the four metropolitan cities choosen are Sindhi, one Sindhi/Urdu, and one Multicultural.
Its not even diving the province for gods sake, Big cities are called Metropolitan cities for a reason, and small cities and villages not for a reason, you cannot call a village, a metropolitan. This LG ordinance is a/c to international standard and also according to the plan of PTI itself, but just for politics PTI is opposing the ordinance.