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Article: pakistan : Local government vs development authority.
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- July 28, 2008
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Byline: shiv03
After the recent election it was generally accepted that the Grand Musharruffian Experiment of welding a new local government administration onto our polity would not be rolled back. Sane counsel argued to do so would be as much a shock to the system as was the introduction of this clunky appendage. And so there has been no real or overt attempt to repeal the various local government ordinances of 2001. However, here in Punjab, and especially in Lahore, this might as well be the case.
Last week, Mian Amir Mahmood presented a Rs30.7 billion budget to the city s District Council. Despite the fact that this is record-breaking city budget ...