MQM says its mayor, deputy mayor will return unopposed

HYDERABAD: Deputy Convener of Rabitta (Coordination) Committee of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), Syed Shahid Pasha on Sunday said his party’s candidates will be elected unopposed as mayor and deputy mayor for Karachi and Hyderabad in the upcoming local government elections.

At a press conference, Shahid Pasha said until now MQM’s chairman and vice chairman have been elected unopposed on 9 out of 96 union councils in Hyderabad. Moreover, MQM’s members for all the 13 union councils have already returned unchallenged.

Pasha said it has been the record of the ruling party not to conduct local government elections. “The upcoming elections are being held on the orders of the Supreme Court and not by the Sindh government,” he added.