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• Coalition partners trade barbs after PPP challenges PML-N to hold LG elections in Punjab, Islamabad

• Saad Rafique opposes holding local polls in Punjab ‘on Karachi pattern’

• Sharjeel says people of Punjab should be given their constitutional right

ISLAMABAD: The PPP said on Thursday that the next local government elections in Sindh would be held in 2027, amid a fresh war of words that has erupted between the party and its main ruling coalition partner — the PML-N — over the local government system in the country.