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According to Daily Times, Pakistan, Friday, July 10, 2009

After a meeting with heads or representatives of Sindh, Balochistan, the NWFP, Azad Jammu & Kashmir, the Northern Areas and Punjab, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani announced Wednesday that the Local Government elections, due in the current year, stood postponed till further decision in this regard by the provinces. Meanwhile, the local bodies (LBs) would be run by administrators appointed by the provincial governments from out of the state bureaucracy. (Local government elections are held every four years and the last ones were held in August 2005.)The prime minister says the local bodies polls have been postponed on the request of the NWFP government as hardly any electoral activity is possible there due to terrorism and displacement of millions of persons who are not expected to be in their constituencies for the foreseeable future. He said: “Provincial representatives have agreed that the local government was purely a provincial subject which had been taken over by the federal government by including it in the Sixth Schedule”

It is surprising that all parties of the ruling coalition have agreed to dissolution of local governments and their management by the administrators appointed by the government. Elections of the local governments have been postponed, reportedly, for one year, due to prevalent situation in the country. And this has been done by a democratically elected government. Situation in the country, except foe NWFP is certainly not that bad warranting the postponement of elections. Such precedence will set a bad precedence and it may be used for the postponement of general elections four years. It appears that the ruling coalition parties don't expect a favourable response from the masses of elections are held. Let us hope that the provincial governments take over the subject of local governments and hold their elections without any loss of time in stead of waiting for another year.

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