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JI demands

SLGO

withdrawal

KARACHI: A meeting of divisional and district chiefs of Jamaat-e-Islami while rejecting Sindh Local Government Ordinance (SLGO) said that handling over local governments departments to bureaucrats is not only undemocratic attitude but murder of democracy and insult of elected representatives.

The participants of the meeting held here on Saturday adopted a resolution unanimously which said this amendment bill of PPP provincial government is equal to take the nation towards British regime of slavery and express no confidence on elected representatives of local governments.

Condemning division of city civic system to gain political benefits it added that system of Karachi Metropolitan Corporation should be established once again and this process should not be given a term of regional lingual or nationalism.

They reiterated to continue struggle for the rights of people and solutions of problems pertaining to Sindh without any discrimination.

The participants demanded establishment of centralised system in city withdrawal of SLGO delegating authority to Local Governments Department and holding of Local Government elections.-PPI