{"id":75731,"date":"2026-09-15T01:58:49","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T01:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/75731"},"modified":"2026-09-15T01:58:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T01:58:50","slug":"sindh-assembly-gives-green-light-to-local-government-act-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/75731","title":{"rendered":"Sindh Assembly gives green light to Local Government Act 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"


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KARACHI: The Provincial Assembly on Monday enacted the Sindh Local Government Act 2026 by a majority vote despite fierce opposition during the session, as Law Minister Zia Ul Hassan Lanjar presented the bill.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Sindh Assembly session was postponed until Tuesday at 3 PM after the Act was approved by a vast majority.<\/p>\n

Interior Minister Zia Lanjar, who personally chaired the standing committee that includes members of the MQM, PTI, and JI, told the press following the meeting that the bill was not introduced in the assembly without consultation.<\/p>\n

The Home Minister additionally revealed that all of the bill\u2019s provisions were discussed, suggestions were made, and they were accepted.<\/p>\n

120 days prior to the local government\u2019s term end, the Sind government would write to the Election Commission requesting to initiate the election process.<\/p>\n

He added that these parties had to read the bill before the meeting, and if they had any objections, they may have said so during the proceedings that they wouldn\u2019t agree with the Act.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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KARACHI: The Provincial Assembly on Monday enacted the Sindh Local Government Act 2026 by a majority vote despite fierce opposition during the session, as Law Minister Zia Ul Hassan Lanjar presented the bill. The Sindh Assembly session was postponed until Tuesday at 3 PM after the Act was approved by a vast majority. Interior Minister Zia Lanjar, who personally chaired…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75732,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":16,"label":"Pakistan"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-content\/uploads\/FotoJet-76-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"frkhokhar@gmail.com","author_link":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/author\/frkhokhargmail-com"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":16,"name":"Pakistan","slug":"pakistan","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":16,"taxonomy":"category","description":"All about Pakistan","parent":0,"count":5346,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":16,"category_count":5346,"category_description":"All about Pakistan","cat_name":"Pakistan","category_nicename":"pakistan","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75733,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75731\/revisions\/75733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}