ISLAMABAD: Jamaat-e-Islami Islamabad Ameer Engineer Nasrullah Randhawa has said that the party has fielded its candidates in all union councils of the federal capital and nomination papers for the local government elections have been submitted from every UC.
In a statement issued by the party’s Islamabad information department on November 10, 2026, Randhawa said Jamaat-e-Islami would not allow the local bodies elections to be sabotaged under any circumstances. He said a permanent solution to Islamabad’s problems lay in the transfer of powers to the grassroots level and the establishment of empowered local governments.
He said the citizens of Islamabad were facing serious issues related to education, health, water and other basic facilities. He added that Jamaat-e-Islami had a clear plan for the development of the city, digitalisation and resolution of public problems.
Randhawa said only a corruption-free and empowered local government could steer Islamabad out of its problems. He said that, if elected, Jamaat-e-Islami would strengthen local bodies and make them functional.
He said that wherever Jamaat-e-Islami had been given an opportunity to serve the people in the past, it had worked beyond the available powers, citing Karachi as a prominent example.
The JI leader appealed to the people of Islamabad to elect Jamaat-e-Islami candidates in the local government elections. He said the party would run a vigorous and effective election campaign until polling day, contact people from all walks of life and work to bring the whole of Islamabad into a common stream beyond the urban-rural divide.
