In light of the monsoon rains in the province, the Sindh administration wrote to the provincial Election Commission of Pakistan on Tuesday to ask for the postponement of the next local government elections, which were set to take place on August 28.
The province government requested in the letter that the organisation reevaluate the date of the second round of local government elections in the divisions of Hyderabad and Karachi.
According to the letter, the rains have caused 450 billion rupees worth of additional losses in the province of Sindh. The Pakistan Meteorological Department has issued a warning that another period of severe rain will begin on August 23, 2022, thus the harm is still being done.
