Councillors plan protest against changes to LG Act.

LAKKI MARWAT -- The local body representatives from southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have rejected the amendments to the Local Government Act and announced to stage a sit-in outside the Banigala residence of former prime minister Imran Khan to seek their reversal.

The announcement was made at a meeting held in Bannu on Monday attended by chairmen of village and neighbourhood councils from Bannu, Lakki Marwat, North Waziristan, Karak and DI Khan districts.

Speaking on the occasion, Mian Mehfoozur Rehman, Malik Hashmat Ali Khan, Mureed Hayat, Sufyan Khan, Syed Kamal Shah, Mansoor Alam, Sharif Zaman, Khalid Hasan, Hizbullah Khan and others said the government had not devolved powers to the grassroots level despite lapse of several months since the local body elections were held in the province.

They said they had also staged a sit-in in Peshawar for six days in the recent past for acceptance of their demands, but to...