
The Pakistan Terheek Insaf’s Khurrum Sher Zaman, the Awami National Party’s Shahi Syed, the PML-N’s Muhammad Zubair, the Aam Log Ittehad Party’s Justice (retd) Wajihuddin, the All Pakistan Muslim League’s Irfan Memon, the Pakistan Awami Tehreek’s Kamran Rao and leaders of other parties also spoke at the moot. The participants, who said the municipal bodies under the recently passed law would be “toothless”, and instead of resolving the civic issues the residents and traders were facing, the new law would worsen the situation.Īlso on December 11, a total of 14 political parties attended a multiparty conference, organised by the MQM-P, and rejected the controversial local government law. On December 18, the MQM-P organsid a traders' conference at the park near the party’s headquarters where trader leaders Atiq Mir, Jamil Paracha, Hakeem Shah and Rizwan Irfan were prominent among The MQM-P delegation included MPA Ali Khurshidi and Sadaqat Hussain. The association’s patron, Zubair Motiwala, Javed Balwani and other office-bearers were also present in the meeting. In a meeting on Friday, the MQM-P delegation also invited SITE Association of Industry president Abdul Rashid and invited the association’s office-bearers to attend the conference.


The MQM-P termed the recently-passed Sindh Local Government (Amendment) Bill, 2021, a biased and anti-people law and vowed to continue their struggle against it on both legal and public fronts.Īb MQM-P spokesperson told The News on Saturday that after approaching the political parties and traders, the Muttahida had convened a meeting with the industrialists to join the campaign for an empowered local government.Īn MQM-P delegation, led by Syed Aminul Haque, federal minister and the party’s coordination committee member, on Saturday, met Karachi Chambers of Commerce and Industries president Muhammad Idress Khan and invited them to attend the conference.
