Gov’t holding seminar on role of elected officials in local development despite withholding polls

In what will likely be seen as one of the biggest ironies this year, the Ministry of Local Govern-ment is staging a seminar today on the role of elected officials in local economic development despite the fact that the PPP/C administration is flagrantly withholding local government elections and these haven’t been held here for 20 years.

The ministry in an advisory invited the media to cover the opening