SLGA Controversy: Talks with MQM under way, says Qaim

KARACHI:

Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah on Wednesday said his government was engaged in negotiation with Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) over local bodies’ polls and would soon reach an agreement.

He was talking to media, first in Karachi, after offering fateh at the mausoleum of Quaid-e-Azam at his the 137th birth anniversary and later in Larkana.

Shah said PPP believed in reconciliatory politics. “It is in the interest of all to work together to create the ideal welfare state, the founder of the nation had envisaged,” he added.

“We have passed Sindh Local Government Act (SLGA) in the provincial assembly with majority after consultation with all the stakeholders but we are ready to hold talks if our friends have any reservations,” he said.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 26^th, 2013.