Replacing Mustafa Kamal !

[Nahraf]

when are the LB polls?

It would be Febuary 26, 2010 plus 165 days which equals August 10, 2010.

Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan
Deadline for LG law, poll extended
KARACHI: A 30-day deadline envisaged in the Sindh Local Government (amendment) Act, 2010 to finalise a new local government law was on Sunday extended by another 45 days through a gubernatorial ordinance.

The Sindh Local Government (third amendment) Ordinance, 2010 was promulgated by Sindh Governor Ishratul Ibad Khan on Sunday night, extending the deadline by 45 more days.

The extension will ultimately delay the holding of the next local government election, which should now be held within 165 days instead of 120 days from the date of the appointment of administrators – Feb 26, 2010.

A spokesman for the Governor House said that a meeting between the governor, Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah and Interior Minister Rehman Malik was held on Sunday and it noted that the legislation for finalising a new local government law was a very important task and more time should be given for deliberations.

He said it was decided at the meeting that the governor would extend the 30-day deadline, which was going to lapse on March 24, by another 45 days through an ordinance.

A deadlock has plagued the PPP-MQM talks on a mutually acceptable local government system in Sindh.

In an attempt to end the deadlock, Interior Minister Rehman Malik flew into the metropolis on Saturday and held meetings with the provincial leadership of the PPP and the MQM. Later, a meeting of the PPP-MQM core committee, jointly presided over by the governor and the chief minister, was held at the Sindh Governor’s House on late Saturday night in which it was decided that all problems and bottlenecks to craft a new LG law should be sorted out through dialogue.

According to relevant clauses of the act, the provincial government is bound to approach the chief election commissioner within 30 days for holding new LG elections after the dissolution of the local governments and councils in Sindh.

However, the extension in the one-month deadline suggested that both parties are in no hurry to resolve their differences over the new LG system.

 

[asif1986]

Nahraf,In the past when PPP was ruling at the centre,no LB elections were held.
Your never know,what if they keep delaying it.
The PPP is also in favour of restoration of defunct 5 districts of karachi.Why is MQM opposing this move.

 

[pak-marine]

Why is MQM opposing this move.

To avoid these LALA types ....

 

[Nahraf]

Nahraf,In the past when PPP was ruling at the centre,no LB elections were held.
Your never know,what if they keep delaying it.
The PPP is also in favour of restoration of defunct 5 districts of karachi.Why is MQM opposing this move.

Because PPP wants to install nonelected official in municipal government through the old system. Why don't we also get rid of all elected assemblies in Pakistan and install civil servants ?

I am no fan of MQM but Mustafa Kamal has been one of the best Nazim in Karachi's history.

 

[Nahraf]

Even Indians are praising Mustafa Kamal as Mayor of Karachi while the Sindh government installs a inept and drunk civil servent to administer Karachi.

Sunil Sethi: Can Karachi get a new start?
Sunil Sethi / New Delhi April 3, 2010, 0:17 IST

A tourist visa to Pakistan, priced at Rs 15, roughly the same as a local bus or Metro ticket in Delhi, sounds like a deliciously tempting bargain but getting there, at this twisted juncture in India-Pakistan relations, is not a joy ride. There is only once-a-week PIA connection between Delhi and Karachi. Writers like Fatima Bhutto, who is promoting her family memoir Songs of Blood & Sword in India this week, or the literary critic Muneeza Shamsie who is the regional chair of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize to be announced in Delhi in later this month, have to travel to Delhi via Dubai. Everywhere I went during the five days I spent in Pakistan last week, friends, acquaintances and colleagues complained of the hardship in getting Indian visas. Fehmida Riaz, the country’s leading feminist poet who spent several years of exile in India during Zia-ul-Haq’s regime, spoke of the tedious paperwork involved including translated and attested copies of ID cards.

Karachi is not reputed as a sub-continental beauty spot. Jihadist battles, gang wars and gunfire are familiar street sights and sounds, drug trafficking in its vast slums, kidnappings and political violence between Sindhi nationalists and MQM, the muhajir party of immigrants from UP and Bihar, are the stuff of everyday life. The horrific kidnap, torture and beheading of Daniel Pearl by Al Qaeda operatives in 2002 certified Karachi as the bad news capital of South Asia. Kolkata, with its slow-moving strikers and fading hammer-and-sickle graffiti or Mumbai with its “maximum city” appellation of overall wretchedness, seem vaguely hopeful in comparison.

What a surprise, then, to find Karachi looking in better shape than before. New flyovers, better traffic management, improved electricity supply in slums and buzzing cafes with women dressed in casual western clothes (an increasingly uncommon sight elsewhere in the country) not to speak of an ornamental fountain that shoots hundred feet from the sea in Clifton seafront (Karachi’s Marine Drive) as a symbol of its revival. Bomb blasts and murky politics, like a transient Arabian Sea tide, seem temporarily at ebb.

By all accounts, much of the credit for the city’s reform goes to its outgoing nazim, or mayor, the pro-active youthful Mustafa Kamal. Although a dyed-in-the-wool, risen-from-the-ranks MQM man, the 50-year-old Kamal, educated in Malaysia and Wales, is hard-working (in office at 7 am everyday), approachable (his widespread popularity) and clean (no scandal in a corrupt metropolis). He has been voted as one of the best city mayors in Asia in recent polls.

I met him him at the opening of the first Karachi Literature Festival, a co-venture between the Oxford University Press, headed by OUP’s dynamic Ameena Saiyid and British Council Pakistan, and perfectly on cue, he said: “I have heard about the success of the Jaipur lit fest. This event is inspired by Jaipur because it’s important for Karachi to turn the page.” Mustafa Kamal has recently had to demit office because, as with so many appointments in Pakistan, he owed his office to the dispensation of Musharraf. Given his MQM political base though, it is widely believed that he will make a resounding comeback.

This is good news for a metropolis of 16 million that is Pakistan’s financial centre, largest seaport and most cosmopolitan yet beleaguered face. Karachi is also the country’s richest city with a great deal of Gulf money rolling about. In the spreading acres of the suburb known as Defence (Parts I to VIII) are villas of a scale and ostentation — and still coming up at great pace — that would be unimaginable in much of metropolitan India. In fact, in most big cities they are coming down to be replaced by apartments. Not surprising, therefore, that the most incredulous question a young journalist asked was: “Is it true that movie stars like Salman Khan and Aamir Khan live in flats?”

 

[asif1986]

It would be Febuary 26, 2010 plus 165 days which equals August 10, 2010.

PPP is considering further delay of about 2 months.they are not in any hurry.
LG polls can be delayed: Durrani | Pakistan | News | Newspaper | Daily | English | Online

 

[Aamir Hussain]

I do not agree with most of the politics of MQM but I would like to see Mustafa Kamal back in office.

It should be a lesson to all -- it only takes one person in the right place at the right time to make a difference. We should all try in our own small way to improve things around us. It will eventully have an effect on te overall situation.

 

[Xtremeownage]

MQM and Altaf (Gandhu) exposed:

 

[dexter]

Tmhare pas MQM ko critcize krne ke ilawa kuch he !!!
Asal me hamare mulk ke logon ki yahi to problem he jo acha kaam krta he use appreciate nhi kiya jata!!

 

[mughaljee]

One of my friend suggest, that,
Why 18 karoor Pakistani suffer by some MNAs & MPAs, Slater those politicians rather then whole Pakistani Nation.