The resolution was passed by PPP, MQM, PML-N and PML-F. PHOTO: MYRA IQBAL
KARACHI: The Sindh Assembly unanimously passed a resolution on Monday, calling for a delay in the local body elections, Express News reported.
The resolution was passed by Pakistan Peoples Party, Muttahida Quami Movement, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and Pakistan Muslim League-Functional.
The lawmakers said free and fair elections are not possible within the earlier announced time-frame and requested for a delay.
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) had announced that local body polls will take place on November 27 in Sindh.
MQM leader Faisal Sabzwari, while speaking to the media, said holding elections under the current system will be unconstitutional.
He said his party has raised objections over the way these elections are being arranged.
Schedule
According to the schedule announced by the poll commission, nomination forms were to be issued on November 9 and the candidates would have to submit them on November 11-12. Objections could be filed the next day.
Returning Officers were told to conduct scrutiny on November 16-17. Appeals against acceptance or rejection of nomination papers could be filed on November 18-19.
The final list of contestants along with their election symbols was to be published on November 23.
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Shame on MQM for supporting this resolution. This was wrong in principal and also strategically. Though PPP has the numbers and the resolution would have passed anyway, it is wrong for the MQM to vote on record for it knowing fully well that the Constitution mandates that local body elections be held and the deadline passed in 1983. It is understood that the feudal dominated political parties do not want to hold local body elections in each one of the provinces because they do not want to give the development funds to the local people; but what incentive does the MQM has to go along with it other than to betray the trust reposed in them by the overwhelming majority of Karachi's voters????