KARACHI: The row over the conduct of the second phase of local elections took a dramatic turn late on Friday night when the rumours of promulgating an ordinance to postpone the polls spread after the senior leadership of the Muttahida Qaumi Movem­ent-Pakistan met Sindh Governor Kamran Tessori.

Sources said the MQM-P team, led by Dr Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui met the governor at his official residence and urged him to address their grievances.

They said Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif and PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari also contac­ted the MQM-P leadership and assured them their concerns would be addressed.

The MQM-P has serious reservations on the delimitations of the constituencies and has demanded the postponement of the polls in Karachi, Hyderabad and Dadu till fresh delimitations.

Published in Dawn, January 14th, 2023