Jamaat-e-Islami’s (JI) Hafiz Naeem-ur-Rehman, who run the single JI seat in the Sindh Assembly, announced on Monday that he was leaving the seat. ‘We don’t want a charity seat,’ he said, speaking about his PS-129 Karachi constituency. Analysts, after finding out about Rehman’s decision, termed it as ‘not a good idea’, saying that Rehman was enough for the Sindh Assembly and he was the choice of the voter and he should not have left after being elected. The Pakistan Peoples Party is leading in the Sindh Assembly with 84 seats, MQM at 28 and Independents at 11. One seat is yet to be announced.
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‘Complicated process’, ECP responds to delay in LG polls results and rigging allegations
Amid questions on delayed results and allegations of rigging, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has commented on the second phase of Local Government (LG) elections in Karachi, Hyderabad.
The commission explained that compiling the results is, “a complicated process” and said it takes time to prepare the result of one union council.
In its statement on Monday, the ECP said the results are being transferred to the offices of Returning Officers (RO) from all polling stations across the city.
The provincial election commissioner said that each RO had to compile the result of at least five UCs, which “is causing a delay in releasing poll results”.
However, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) openly accused the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), provincial administration and the electoral body of wrongdoing, warning that any attempt to “change the results” after voting would lead to a strong reaction.
Meanwhile, Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) Karachi President Hafiz Naeem-ur-Rehman said: “We are not getting results from the returning officers despite 18 hours of delay since the conclusion of polling.”
He strongly condemned the delay and called on the concerned authorities to stop the ROs who are “trying to change the results”.
He said that a lot of people from the PPP also voted for JI. He further said that his party has won over 100 seats, adding that there is ambiguity on the rest of the seats.
As of now, it’s being reported that PPP leads with victorious on 46 UCs, Jamat-e-Islami has secured 17, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) 13, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) three, Jamiat Ulama-e-Islam (JUI-F) two, while banned organisation Tehreek-e-Labbaik (TLP) and an independent have one won seat each.
Voting started early on Sunday morning amid a low turnout, however, official results are still not declared as of Monday afternoon. It is pertinent to mention that a day before the polls, Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan announced that they are boycotting the local government polls
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Jamaat-e-Islami calls off sit-in protest in Karachi
Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) has called off its sit-in protest in Karachi after the Sindh government agreed to the revisions in the Sindh Local Government Act of 2013 after negotiations successfully concluded between them.
Both parties have signed the written agreement according to which the health and education institutions will be again transferred to the local bodies, said Sindh Minister for Local Government, Syed Nasir Hussain Shah.
While addressing the sit-in protestors, Nasir Shah announced that the provincial government will bring amendments to the Local Government law. The notification will be issued in one to two weeks by the Sindh government.
Both parties also agreed to establish the Provincial Finance Commission, with the mayor and town chairman as members of the commission. It will be awarded once the representatives of the Local Government take power to the authority.
The mayor and chairman will be responsible for the Building Control Authority and other development authorities.
The educational institute, Medical and Dental College will be given back to the Karachi Municipality.
The Solid Waste Management Board will be in control of Mayor Karachi.
Later on, JI Karachi Chief, Hafiz Naeem-ur-Rehman announced that there would be no sit-in protests in different areas of the city.
He said, “With the implementation of this agreement with the Sindh government, we have to get some issues resolved by the federation.”
JI party has been staging sit-in protests for the past 29 days in Karachi. On January 23, Karachi Chief of JI, Hafiz Naeem-ur-Rehman warned that the party will block five entrance points to Karachi if their demands were not met.
Both parties reached an agreement after several protesters of Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) got injured from tear gas shelling and police mishandling including the death of one worker on Wednesday. The MQM was attempting to reach the CM House for a sit-in against the Local Government Act.
The police, however, baton-charged the crowd and used teargas shells in an attempt to dissuade them from entering the red zone.
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Jamaat-e-Islami warns that it will block entry points to Karachi
Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Karachi Chief, Hafiz Naeem-ur-Rehman has warned that the party will block the five entrance points to Karachi if their demands are not met.
JI has been staging sit-in protests for the past 24 days in Karachi and last night the JI Karachi chief addressed the gathering and gave a two-day ultimatum to the provincial government to accept their demands for the withdrawal of a local government act recently passed by the Sindh Assembly.
JI Chief, Siraj-ul-Haq has also addressed the activists sitting in the protests on Sunday night.
He said that the battle over this issue would damage the Pakistan People’s Party.
He warned that there would be a high possibility that people would start marching on Bilawal House when Bilawal Bhutto Zardari himself would initiate his long march towards Islamabad on February 27.
Hafiz Naeem-ur-Rehman also warned that when the party’s sit-in protest begins at the entry points to Karachi, they would not allow any vehicles to pass the road except ambulances.
The bill was passed with amendments to the Sindh Local Government Act of 2013 last December 2021. In this bill, financial independence, which was allocated to the Karachi Municipal Corporation, would be taken back to the provincial government.
JI’s stance is that these amendments which were made under the local government act would weaken the local government organisation in the province.