KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan kicked off its electioneering ahead of general elections and announced its manifesto with ‘three constitutional amendments’ as key components.

Party’s top leaders held press conference to announce manifesto as Karachi-based party pulled up socks for contesting February 8 general polls. Dr Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui, party convener expressed his views that nation had not received constitutional protection for past 50 years.

It is inevitable to make some amendments to Constitution to strengthen country through empowering common man, he added.

Emphasising necessary amends to existing laws, Dr Siddiqui announced that his political party proposed three constitutional amendments to give legal cover to municipal, city and district-level governments. Politico sought full legal protection for all local governments by mentioning those institutions under its power in Constitution.

MQM-P, he said, won’t accept powerless democracy in country anymore. He said that his party presented its political and electoral manifesto, suggesting solution to all political and economic crises by strengthening true democracy in country.

Dr Farooq Sattar senior deputy convener announced that draft bill had been proposed for all state institutions. He stressed that just taxation system must be introduced in country in which rich and poor pay equal taxes.

He vowed to launch new project for eliminating scarcity of water in Karachi which would be completed in four years. Senior deputy convener Mustafa Kamal said that MQM-P’s manifesto was not just bunch of documents highlighting country’s core issues but giving practical solution.

Published in The Daily National Courier, January, 05 2024

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