Why does it has to come to this? Why court has to say that if schedule is not submitted by Govt by 7:45pm today, they will start proceeding at 8pm and MAY issue contempt of court notice to Govt? If there were some legal/management issues in giving the schedule, how come those issues disappear after the contempt of court notice?
Why “democratically” elected governments are ignoring their constitutional responsibilities? perhaps they fear that it will bring up new breed of politicians and they might lose hold onto party? or its the matter of controlling $$$ from top to lowest level?
Local bodies are the basic building blocks of democracy and local body representatives try to solve day-to-day issues of constituency. Personally, I still think Musharraf’s Nazim’s system was the best system for Pakistan but if you have trashed it and dont like it for whatever reason (i think because they want to control all funds and not give it to Nazims), just implement an alternative system and go ahead with the elections.
SC comes close to issuing contempt notice to PM - Pakistan - DAWN.COM
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Tuesday came close to issuing a contempt notice to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif after it rejected a government plea stating that an ordinance to hold local government elections in all 43 cantonment boards of the country was ready.
“This is enough for us to issue (contempt) notice as our orders prima facie appear to not have been implemented,” retorted Justice Jawwad S. Khawaja, who headed a three-judge bench.
The court had taken up the implementation of its March 19, 2014, judgment which had vested the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) with the authority of carrying out delimitation of constituencies and then holding the local government elections in Sindh and Punjab. (Read More)
ECP agrees to hold local body polls by September - Pakistan - DAWN.COM
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), after being questioned by Supreme Court (SC) over the delay in holding local government polls, has agreed to hold the elections in Punjab and Sindh by September 2015.
The ECP Secretary Syed Sher Afgan submitted a schedule of holding LG polls before the SC in which it was suggested that polls will be held in three stages — with the third stage ending on March 26, 2016.
However, SC rejected the proposed schedule and asked the election commission to hold the polling four months before its given schedule, as a lot of time has already been wasted by the election commission. After extensive debate in the court, ECP agreed to revise its proposed schedule and hold the polls as per the directive of apex court… (Read more)
