Local govt polls to be held in Sindh next year: PPP

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• Coalition partners trade barbs after PPP challenges PML-N to hold LG elections in Punjab, Islamabad • Saad Rafique opposes holding local polls in Punjab ‘on Karachi pattern’ • Sharjeel says people of Punjab should be given their constitutional right ISLAMABAD: The PPP said on Thursday that the next local government elections in Sindh would be held in 2027, amid a fresh war of words that has erupted between the party and its main ruling coalition partner — the PML-N — over the local government system in the country. “By the grace of Allah Almighty, local government elections will be held for the third time in Sindh in 2027,” senior PPP leader Senator Waqar Mehdi said in a statement issued in response to a recent statement by PML-N leader Khawaja Saad Rafique. In a post on X, Rafique had criticised PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari’s demand for local government elections in Punjab and the federal capital, saying such polls should not be held on the pattern followed in Sindh. He said it was Mr Bhutto-Zardari’s rightful demand that LG polls be held soon in Punjab and Islamabad, but not on the pattern of Karachi elections. “If anyone wants further details about it, they can ask (…