IHC orders local bodies elections in Islamabad

Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday ordered the government to hold local bodies’ elections in the federal capital within the next six months.
A one-judge bench headed by Justice Anwarul Haq Qadri on Tuesday heard a petition regarding the local bodies’ elections in the capital, with advocates Babar Awan and Kaukab Iqbal representing each side.
After hearing arguments from both sides, the court ordered the federal government to hold local bodies’ polls in Islamabad in the next six months.
This case had been filed about six months ago, with the petitioners pleading that the common man was being deprived of his basic rights because local government elections were not being held. The petitioners further argued that because municipal elections had not been held for several years, people in the city’s outskirts faced a lot of problems.