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‘LG system’s fate to be decided by president’
Monday, October 12, 2009
By Fasahat Mohiuddin
Karachi
The newly-elected Sindh Local Council President, Dr Raheela Gul Magsi, who is also the District Nazim of Tando Allahyar, has said that fate of the present local government system will be decided by President Asif Ali Zardari.
She said that the President had to end this system through a notification.
She was talking to The News at a local hotel where the Sindh local council convention was held, wherein she was elected President.
The convention was attended by all the Nazims and councillors of Sindh on Sunday.
She said this when asked how this present local government system would end as its tenure was ending by October 16, 2009.
When her attention was drawn to the fact that the Sindh Minister for Local Government, Agha Siraj Durrani, had claimed that on October 16 ,administrators would be appointed all over Sindh, she said that Durrani changed his statements every day. He had earlier said that this system would end on August 14. “So, no comments on his statements”, Dr Raheela maintained.
She further said that the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) had to play a vital role in retaining this system as they were the coalition partners of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP). She lauded the role of MQM founder Altaf Hussain for extending full support to the retention of the present system.
She claimed that this was the best system for the masses and added that President Asif Ali Zardari’s sister had twice been elected as a Nazim from Nawabshah and the daughter of Sindh CM Syed Qaim Ali Shah, Nafisa Shah, had been the Nazim of Khairpur. “So, who says this system is bad,” she asked .
She stressed that if there were some flaws in the present local government system, they should be removed through legal means but to abolish this system would never be in the larger interest of the country.
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