The countrywide district governments will be dissolved and replaced by Administrators next month to hold fresh elections in July, sources of National Reconstruction Bureau (NRB) told Business Recorder here on Tuesday, The sources said the decision had been taken to ensure transparency of election process and to provide level playing field to all the candidates, which was not possible in the presence of powerful District Nazims. Talking to Business Recorder, Chief Minister Balochistan Jam Muhammad Yousaf said general perception was that the incumbent District Nazims would continue till the holding of next local bodies' elections, however, it would not make much difference if Administrators were appointed for fair and free elections.
The Pakistan Muslim League (N) leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan told this scribe his party would give its reaction after the dissolution of district governments and appointment of the administrators.
Liaquat Baloch, leader of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) which, rules the sensitive North Western Frontier Province (NWFP) and is a coalition partner in the disturbed Balochistan province, said that the local bodies' institutions were a provincial subject and the Federal Government should not interfere in the provincial matters.
Talking to Business Recorder, he demanded that Federal Government should immediately announce the election schedule as the four year term of the district governments expired on 28th April 2005, and appoint an "autonomous" election commission to hold those elections.
Some political pundits of the Federal Capital are of the view that, after the appointment of Administrators, the local bodies' elections might be postponed for an indefinite period, as the MMA might capture powerful district governments in some important districts of NWFP and Balochistan.
Meanwhile, after confirmation of on-going talks between President Pervez Musharraf and the PPP leadership, new alliances of political parties in the Parliament seem to be in the making. The trouble-shooters of MMA and PML (N) Hafiz Hussain Ahmad and Chaudhary Nisar Ali Khan held informal talks in the lobby of the Parliament. Later, Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan held consultations with Senator Ishaque Dar and Khawaja Asif, the top confidants of PML (N) leader Mian Nawaz Sharif.
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