LG Issue Not Merely Involves Hyderabad, Karachi: Minister
PAKISTAN, KARACHI: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Kamaruz Zaman Kaira has said the Local Government issue does not merely involve Hyderabad and Karachi cities and this issue must be resolved through four provinces’ consensus.
Briefing media here at new Sindh Secretariat over the engagements of president Asif Ali Zardari during his visit to Karachi, Kaira said whatever may be the court’s ruling on former president Pervez Musharraf, it shall be accepted.
The coalition parties will be taken into confidence over all issues before reaching any decision including the matter to repeal local governments, Kaira told reporters when asked about the meeting of MQM delegation with President Zardari on district government system.
Federal Minister ruled out possibility to disseminate information to media in regard to every meeting coalition government hold.
Richard Holbrook Postponed His Swat Visit
PAKISTAN, ISLAMABAD: The scheduled visit of Richard Holbrooke to Mingora, the chief town of Swat, has been postponed due to bad weather conditions.
U.S. special envoy for Pakistan and Afghanistan who arrived in Islamabad on Saturday night was due in Mingora on Sunday morning to review the rehabilitation and repatriation of operation-affected people of the district. However, his visit was postponed due to stormy rains hit the upper parts of the country later Saturday.
This is Holbrooke’s second visit to Pakistan in less than a month for talks with top Pakistani leaders on a range of economic and security issues.
“He (Holbrooke) is going to meet most senior level officials during his stay,” US embassy spokesman Richard Snelsire told media persons.
During his three-day stay in Islamabad, Holbrooke will hold talks with President Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi and army chief General Ashfaq Kayani.
“The talks will focus on a range of issues including rehabilitation of displaced people, the security situation in the northwest and tribal regions and presidential elections in Afghanistan,” a foreign ministry official told a news agency, referring to the August 20 poll in the neighboring country.
