Friday, November 20, 2009
Local Governments to Stay Even After 31 December, 2009- MUSATAFA KAMAL
LAHORE: Karachi city district nazim Mustafa Kamal says the incumbent local government system is not going to be wrapped up after Dec 31 as is being perceived by many.
Talking to media persons at the Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s Punjab office here on Wednesday, he said the local councils would stay even after Dec 31 though provinces would be empowered then to make certain amendments to the law governing the councils.
To a question about alleged extortion by the party in Karachi, he denied the allegation, arguing that had it been the case the MQM would not have taken roots in the areas having the highest literacy rate in the country.
MQM activists were barring party chief Altaf Husain from returning home, he said when asked as to why the exiled leader was not coming to Pakistan to directly lead the party.
‘How can we allow him to return when brother of a sitting prime minister is killed in a shootout with police and when a former premier is shot dead amid her thousands of activists?’
He denied a report that Husain had assets worth millions of pounds in London or anywhere else.
‘What he owned is a 120-yard house in Karachi that houses party headquarters.’ Kamal is here to attend a seminar arranged by the Lahore University of Management Sciences. (Source: daily Dawn, Karachi)
Talking to media persons at the Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s Punjab office here on Wednesday, he said the local councils would stay even after Dec 31 though provinces would be empowered then to make certain amendments to the law governing the councils.
To a question about alleged extortion by the party in Karachi, he denied the allegation, arguing that had it been the case the MQM would not have taken roots in the areas having the highest literacy rate in the country.
MQM activists were barring party chief Altaf Husain from returning home, he said when asked as to why the exiled leader was not coming to Pakistan to directly lead the party.
‘How can we allow him to return when brother of a sitting prime minister is killed in a shootout with police and when a former premier is shot dead amid her thousands of activists?’
He denied a report that Husain had assets worth millions of pounds in London or anywhere else.
‘What he owned is a 120-yard house in Karachi that houses party headquarters.’ Kamal is here to attend a seminar arranged by the Lahore University of Management Sciences. (Source: daily Dawn, Karachi)
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