Pakistan, Jan. 13 -- President Asif Ali Zardari has issued an ordinance amending the Islamabad Capital Territory Local Government Act, reshaping the federal capital's local government structure and forcing another reset of the city's delayed municipal election process.

The Islamabad Capital Territory Local Government (Amendment) Ordinance, 2026, was promulgated on January 9 and published the next day, according to the gazette notification.

The ordinance replaces the "Metropolitan Corporation" model with "Town Corporation" structures across the law. It requires Islamabad to be divided into three Town Corporations, each aligned "as far as practicable" with the territorial limits of a National Assembly constituency.

Each Town Corporation ...