Pakistan: Its time CJ Chaudhry resigns, says Khuhro

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Consultations with political parties on new local government system are in process and new draft will be prepared with consensus. Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader and Senior Education and Literacy Minister, Nisar Ahmed Khuhro said on Wednesday while talking to journalists after attending the inauguration ceremony of videoconference room at Dawood University. “It will be a new LG system of 2013,” he said, adding that the new LG system will be presented before Sindh Assembly for approval after developing consensus. The minister said that the new LG system will be prepared in light of ground realities. The positive points of both, 1979 LG system and SLGO, 2001 will be included in the new system, he added. He said that the new system will be acceptable to people of the province. Responding to a question about a possible alliance with the MQM, he said that the government has kept its doors open for the MQM as it does not believe in solo flight. He denied the emergence of a forward block in the PPP, and said that these are just rumours. To a question about resignation of Fakhruddin G Ebrahim he said that he should have resigned earlier when the apex court had changed schedule of the Presidential Election. “Now Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry should also tender his resignation for the same mistake”, he added. To another question he said that the Education Department has temporarily restored DDO powers of ADEOs of the department.