Jamaat e Islami demands immediate local bodies elections

Lahore: The central Political Committee of the Jamaat e Islami, has called upon the newly elected governments to ensure local bodies elections within next three months for the expeditious solution of local issues.

This demand was voiced at a meeting of the committee that met in Islamabad on Tuesday with the JI Secretary General, Liaqat Baloch in the chair. Other party leaders including JI Naib Ameer, Sirajul Haq, Dr Farid Ahmed Piracha, Prof. Ibrahim khan, Dr Merajul Had Siddiqui, Abdul Mateen Akhundzada and Mian Muhammad Aslam were also present. .

The committee was of the view that there had been no election in Karachi where the entire electoral process was hijacked. It said that an ethnic organization took possession of polling stations and filled the ballot boxes after stamping the ballot papers on heir own.

The committee told the political parties securing the mandate that it was their testing time and their performance would be judged on the basis of their promises and manifestoes.

Addressing the meeting, Liaqat Baloch said that ideological politics never died, and ups and downs of the situation did not matter much for them. He said it was a matter of great satisfaction that the JI had not compromised as for as the character and capability of its candidates was concerned. It greeted the winning candidates with the hope that they would come up to the people’s expectations.