Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan has urged masses to proactively participate in local government elections in Karachi and Hyderabad. PTI Chief, in a statement, said his party is fighting against political parties that were damaging Pakistan from inside from last 30 years. People, through their votes, would prove that this was new Pakistan, he added.

However, the Sindh government on Saturday once again asked the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to postpone the local body elections in Karachi division and Hyderabad districts citing delimitation issue and non-availability of army troops for deployment at the polling stations.

The latest bid comes as the Muttahidah Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P), a key coalition partner of PDM and PPP in Centre, is mulling to pull out of the alliance if its demands regarding delimitation are not met. A day earlier, the top electoral body had rejected the provincial government’s identical plea to delay the elections, vowing that LG polls would be held as per planned, Jan 15.

In the fresh letter to the provincial election commissioner, the Sindh government stated the ECP, through his Jan 13 order, rejected withdrawal of notification regarding the number of Union Committees in the Karachi division and Hyderabad district. “Furthermore, in the said order no response has been made to the concerns of the provincial Govt regarding the non-availability of Pakistan Army & Civil Armed Forces,” the letter reads.

Credit : Independent News Pakistan-INP