Strengthening LGs
THE ECP has done well to refuse to allow the Punjab administration to push the local government elections to April. It should now hold its ground. Four years after the last elected councils left office, the province is still looking for reasons not to hold the polls. The reasons, though, keep changing. In August, the provincial authorities agreed to a window between Dec 15 and Jan 15. Two months later, they discovered that the months of December and January are foggy and cold, and that Ramazan would begin in February. None of this is news. Winter arrives every year, and the Ramazan calendar was not a........
