KARACHI: The newly elected local government representatives in Sindh and Punjab have taken charge of their offices, after taking oath on Thursday.
Local Government
RAWALPINDI: As many as 1,326 newly elected representatives of local government took oath of their offices yesterday here in the halls of Rawal and Potohar Towns. The representatives who took oath included chairmen, vice chairmen, and 6 councillors from each union council.
RAWALPINDI: The PPP and PTI have joined hands to challenge the PML-N in the Rawalpindi Municipal Corporation (RMC) by bringing a joint candidate for the opposition leader.
LAHORE: Up to 2,192 newly-elected councilors, vice chairmen and chairmen of Lahore’s 274 union councils (UCs) took an oath of their office on Thursday at public offices in the metropolis.
KARACHI: The newly elected Local Government representatives in Sindh and Punjab are taking oath today (Thursday).
KARACHI: Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad has issued the Sindh Local Government (third amendment) Ordinance, 2016 through which hurdles in holding elections on reserved seats have been removed and which will help in completion of the local government system in the province.
RAWALPINDI: Even after the elected members of the local government take oath to their new offices on Thursday, the bureaucracy will continue to remain the responsibility of the Rawalpindi Municipal Corporation (RMC) and the District Council, because the newly elected members have no offices yet.
KARACHI: The designate mayor of Karachi, Waseem Akhtar has warned that in case the additional powers for Karachi’s mayor being demanded by Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) were not granted, the party will be left with no other option but to snatch them by any means.
KOHAT: District nazim Maulana Niaz Mohammad has said that district nazims from across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa will call on Provincial Local Government Minister Inayatullah soon to take a final word from him about their responsibilities, salaries and perks.
UPPER DIR: The elections for the tehsil nazim and naib nazim offices in Wari tehsil of Upper Dir for the third time is scheduled to be held tomorrow
ISLAMABAD: The threat of Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) partially worked when the Punjab government notified the number of special seats for local governments while the Sindh administration was yet to do the same.
KARACHI: The Sindh government has notified number of seats reserved for women, youth, labourers /peasants and non-Muslims who will be elected by members of the local government institutions after taking their oath on Thursday.
KARACHI: A protest demonstration organised by the Muttahida Qaumi Movement outside the Provincial Election Commission’s office on Tuesday demanded that the authorities issue the schedule of the mayoral election forthwith and the elected local government representatives are given powers in accordance with the law and the Constitution.
HYDERABAD: Criticising an inordinate delay in elections on reserved seats, and of mayor and deputy mayor after completing three phases of the local government elections in Sindh, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s Hyderabad zonal in-charge Navaid Shamsi strongly condemned what he termed irresponsible attitude of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP).
NOWSHERA: Three general councillors on Monday resigned from Awami National Party and announced joining the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI).
