Karachi LG Bill Protests: Updates And Discussion

[PaklovesTurkiye]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1488384301200814092

https://twitter.com/x/status/1488397688030834689

https://twitter.com/x/status/1488439305945198593

https://twitter.com/x/status/1488400646462218241

 

[python-000]

Now plz ppp must leave & get lost from Karachi City...

 

[PaklovesTurkiye]

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=241681531444340

 

[PaklovesTurkiye]

MK is going good...Needs to make his social media more effective.

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MQM challenges delimitations done by PPP - blasts PPP for making local bodies powerless and ineffective.

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Landmark Supreme Court decision which if implemented fully - can bring Karachi/Urban Sindh into mainstream and resolve all Karachi's issues. PPP is trying to create complex issues for Pakistan by deliberate non governance in port city for consecutive 14 years (2008-Cont)

 

[PaklovesTurkiye]

حکمرانوں کو نوجوانوں کو ریاست کیخلاف استعمال نہیں کرنے دینگے، مصطفیٰ کمال​

14 فروری ، 2022

کراچی(اسٹاف رپورٹر) پاک سر زمین پارٹی کے چیئرمین سید مصطفی کمال نے کہا ہے کہ اگر سندھ حکومت نے 1200 ارب روپے ڈسٹرکٹ میں منتقل کرنے کا نظام نہیں بنایا تو اب ہم شہر کے 12 مختلف مقامات پر دھرنا دیں گے،پاک سر زمین پارٹی ناعاقبت اندیش حکمرانوں کو پاکستان کے نوجوانوں کو ریاست کے خلاف استعمال کرنے نہیں دے گی۔ پاکستان کے آئین میں تین ترامیم کی اشد ضرورت ہے جن میں پی ایف سی ایوارڈ کے ذریعےاین ایف سی ایوارڈ براہ راست صوبائی حکومت کے ذریعے ڈسٹرکٹ کو منتقل کیا جائے۔ آرٹیکل 140اے کے تحت لوکل گورنمنٹ اور ماتحت محکموں کے اختیارات پاکستان کے آئین میں ناصرف شامل کئے جائیں بلکہ ان کے اختیارات واضح طور پر وفاقی اور صوبائی حکومتوں کی طرز پر لکھے جائیں تاکہ کوئی وزیر اعلیٰ آئین کی تشریح اپنے مطلب سے نہ کرسکے۔ تیسری ترمیم کے ذریعے بلدیاتی انتخابات کو قومی اور صوبائی اسمبلیوں کے انتخابات سے مشروط کیا جائے تاکہ جمہوریت کو اسکی روح کے مطابق لاگو کیا جاسکے۔ ڈسٹرکٹ ایسٹ کے نوجوانوں کی پی ایس پی میں شمولیت کے موقع پر خطاب کرتے ہوئےانہوں نے مزید کہا کہ سندھ کے وزیر اعلیٰ کو ہر سال 1ہزار ارب ملتے ہیں، 200ارب روپے یہ کراچی سے ٹیکس کے ذریعے کماتے ہیں۔ وزیر اعلیٰ ان 1200ارب روپے کو ذاتی جاگیر سمجھ کر خرچ کرر ہے ہیں اور نیچے وسائل منتقل نہیں کر رہے جس کی وجہ سے عوام میں شدید اضطراب پایا جاتا ہے۔ پی ایس پی کراچی سے کشمور تک کی عوام کے لئے حکمرانی چاہتی ہے۔ نام نہاد جمہوری صوبائی حکومتیں اٹھارہویں ترمیم سے ملنے والے اختیارات و وسائل نچلی سطح پر منتقل نہیں کررہی۔

https://e.jang.com.pk/detail/52788

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Strengthening LGs​

Mirza Moiz Baig Published February 15, 2022 - Updated about 7 hours ago

The writer is a lawyer.

AT the heart of the petition filed by the MQM challenging the constitutionality of the Sindh Local Government Act, 2013, lay a simple question: can a provincial government arrogate to itself the powers and functions vested in the local governments after the inclusion of Article 140A in the Constitution, which directs provincial governments to devolve administrative, political and financial authority to elected LGs?

The Sindh government vociferously resisted an expansive construction of Article 140A, arguing that the spirit of devolution espoused in the 18th Amendment was restricted to the devolution of power and financial resources from the centre to the provinces and did not entail that the provinces too devolve administrative authority and fiscal resources to LGs in the same spirit. Notwithstanding this stunted conception of democracy and devolution, however, the Supreme Court allowed the petition, directing the provincial government to devolve meaningful authority to elected LGs so as to comply with the mandate of Article 140A. How significant is the court’s judgement and would empowering LGs alleviate the misery of citizens compelled to live in unlivable cities?

Local governments constitute the cornerstone of a functioning democracy. In recognising that local issues are best addressed by a government comprising members from the locality as opposed to the federal or provincial government, the state provides for the direct involvement of citizens in decision-making at the local level, thus, engendering greater political participation. Resultantly, with these governments lies the citizens’ first and natural attachment given that the functions of these most profoundly affect their daily lives; they are most acquainted with the affairs of these and with their members they are most likely to have ties of kinship. LGs are, therefore, critical for democracy to deepen, for diverse opinions and legitimate interests to be taken into account, and for service delivery to be closer to and be held accountable by the people.

The Sindh government would do well to embrace the court’s decision.​

In a robust democracy, service delivery in local government carves a path for local leaders to advance to higher political office. These paths, however, are closed when mainstream parties are divorced from LGs. When LGs are controlled by unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats, political parties have little motivation to galvanise grassroots supporters and rally around local issues. Regular LG elections on a partisan basis on the other hand create an incentive for parties to enhance their reputations by focusing on local governance. A functioning LG, therefore, contributes to the system’s vitality by increasing accountability through democratic competition and affords political parties the opportunity to organise their cadres, thus, increasing political participation.

Notwithstanding the merits of a functioning LG system, the provincial government has shown some displeasure with the court’s decision, with certain members of the ruling party insinuating that the province of Sindh was particularly targeted. However, these statements are flippant and are belied by the fact that the court recently restored the LGs prematurely dissolved in the Punjab province.

Given the various ethnic and linguistic fault lines in Sindh, the provincial government would do well to embrace the judgement and devolve meaningful authority to the LGs as opposed to stoking the flames of ethnic tensions in an attempt to maintain its hegemony.

With the MQM grappling with fratricidal strife and the PTI reeling from the effects of an economy in nosedive, the PPP’s electoral future in Karachi may well depend on how it responds to the Supreme Court’s judgement on the issue of LGs. Would it endeavour to improve service delivery by promoting local leaders, such as the current administrator Karachi, and devolve meaningful authority to LGs, thus, injecting a new lease of life into its own party? Or will it continue to cripple LGs while accusing the centre of diluting provincial autonomy?

Similarly, while the court’s decision to strengthen LGs deserves acclaim, the court too would do well to remember that functions legitimately devolved to elected local governments ought to be protected not only from the provincial governments but also from the court’s own activism. Writing for these pages, lawyer Moiz Jafferi had said: “Our chief justices of late have had hobby careers, such as Saqib Nisar and his reinvention as a dam engineer and professional prison food taster. Justice Gulzar seemed to prefer building control in Karachi.”

Will the judgement in this case save elected LGs from provincial governments and the court’s own best instincts? Only time will tell. Until then, let us rejoice. The tyranny of centralisation may be coming to an end.

The writer is a lawyer.

Twitter: @MoizBaig26

Published in Dawn, February 15th, 2022

https://www.dawn.com/news/1675168/strengthening-lgs

 

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pee pee pee aik badtareen syasi jamat hai jis mai har kisam ka mujrim syasi panah lata hain iss waqt iss ppp na Karachi ka tamam idaro ko sirf banner poster or jhanda agana ka thaka dya hua ha Govt Sindh mai Governer raj lagaya or Karachi ko pee pee pee ka cancer sa bachay...

 

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Iss Shahar E Karachi or iss shahar ka logon ko inn mujrimon dakowon or lootaron ka group (ppp) ka toola or mar dala or ab 27 feb baroz itwar ko iss shahar ke namaz e janazah ha...

 

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Now plz ppp must leave & get lost from Karachi City...

My humble request from the govt of PAKISTAN & the PAK ARMY to save Karachi from ppp & ongoing shia extremisam in the whole City Karachi is daiying...