‘Empowered LG set-up guarantees resolution of 90pc of problems’

Pak Sarzameen Party Chairman Syed Mustafa Kamal said on Friday democracy and the constitution came under threat when someone asked for not holding the elections of the prime minister and the chief ministers on the basis of inaccurate census results,

“But when the local government system is left dysfunctional for long, no one is concerned about democracy and the constitution,” he said, addressing an event in which Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Malir officials joined the PSP.

Kamal said an empowered and functional local bodies’ setup guaranteed 90 per cent of the problems of the people at the grass-roots level. “Even in 2018, the results of the census were not available, but elections were held in light of the previous census,” he said. “For the rulers, the people are just a number while Karachi is a cow that is milked but not even fed. Karachi, Pakistan's economic engine, cannot be run by any political or non-political administrator.”

The PSPS chief said corrupt, incompetent and prejudiced rulers had destroyed institutions and infrastructure, and the effects were coming to the economy and the people.