PPP to contest upcoming by-polls in Karachi from all 11 UCs.

KARACHI -- The Pakistan People's Party has announced that it will field candidates to contest the upcoming by-elections in Karachi in all 11 vacant union committees.

The announcement to this effect was made at the meeting of the PPP Karachi Division on Saturday with Sindh Labour and Human Resources Minister Saeed Ghani in the chair. The meeting took into consideration in detail affairs related to the upcoming by-elections in 11 UCs in Karachi.

While speaking to the participants of the meeting, Ghani, who is also PPP Karachi President, said the People's Party would contest the upcoming by-polls from every constituency and would secure victory on the basis of public support. The presidents and general secretaries of the PPP in different districts of Karachi also expressed their reservations about the ongoing census drive in the city. The meeting decided that the same reservations would be duly conveyed to the relevant authorities of the federal and Sindh governments.

Ghani said that from day one they had been expressing reservations about the...