ISLAMABAD:

The Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) on Wednesday demanded that local governments (LGs) be given autonomy in the proposed 27th (Constitution) Amendment.

MQM-P leader Farooq Sattar presented the demand while addressing a news conference in Islamabad, alongside party leader Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui.

Sattar asserted that after provincial autonomy had been granted under the 18th Amendment, the "next step naturally is local autonomy, so its turn must come".

"The important thing that we also said at the time of the 26th Amendment, that our constitutional amendment package be included," he said, referring to its agreement with the PML-N to empower local governments. "But it did not happen," Sattar lamented, calling for the matter to be included in the 27th Amendment.

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