Minutes-long Sindh cabinet meeting puts off LG polls review.

KARACHI -- The Sindh cabinet met briefly on Thursday but adjourned the meeting as the senior officers required to brief the members on security arrangements for the Jan 15 local government elections in the city and flour crisis across the province were not fully prepared for their presentations.

Informed sources told Dawn that the meeting, chaired by Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah, lasted only a few minutes.

They said that the chief minister asked them to prepare their respective presentations besides a detaiAled briefing on the law and order, especially street crimes in the city, and present them before the cabinet which would meet at 11am on Friday (today).

The sources said that the chief minister asked the IGP to give a detail briefing on the deployment of police during the polls.

Commissioner reviews arrangements

The city administration, however, reviewed the preApAaAration and arrangemeAnts for the second phase of the local government elections, including installation of CCTV cameras at 'highly sensitive' polling station.

Chaired by Karachi ComAmAiAssioner Iqbal MemAon, the meeting decided that the code of the conduct for polling issued by the Election Commission of Pakistan would be implemented effectively.

The deputy commissioners of all seven districts of the city, who are also the District Returning OfficAers (DROs), briefed the commissioner about progress of work for LG elections which are to be...