I did not say Karachi should be made a province: Shahbaz Sharif

Let them eat provinces.Recommend

No body is demanding any new provinces in Sindh yet in order to redirect attention away from the real demand of the people of south Punjab he comes up with a statement that makes no sense in the context of the what was being discussed.Recommend

When people sitting in glass-houses start throwing stones here and there, reaction is a natural outcome. There is still time not to open a Pandora-box that we are not capable of managing.

As we do have so many other real issues; we should avoid supporting new provinces on dialect or language basis. If we really care about solving day to day problems of our people, think about further strengthening devolution of powers to lower levels before it is too late. Allow NFC type commissions at provincial, district and even lower levels to let funds be distributed as per right of each area and community irrespective of location and background.

Pakistan is the only home we got, we cannot afford to play politics with its existence. Recommend

Wales sheep…Recommend

Creation of new provinces might help smooth administration but it will also increase the expenditure which will be on the shoulders of the poor people and tax paying middle class professionals. Unfortunately the recently issued was raised by the for political expediency and point securing firstly by the PPP and now responded by the PML N. The division for the purposes of political expediencies never result in the welfare of the people in the end. There is no harm in dividing Punjab and carving out Saraiki province, Hazara in PK and Karachi in Sindh. These divisions should be in recognition of peoples ethnic and cultural origins and then respective mother languages should be declared official languages of the provinces. Feudalism and Sardari systems should be abolished with the same stroked of the pen which will carve the provinces so that people should be relieved from Takhat Lahore and curse of the decadent feudal lord who have factually holding the local communities in slavery. Recommend

I dont think he really means that. It was just a verbal slap on the opportunists’ face who are supporting division of Punjab.Recommend

I don’t thing this is the right time to discuss on provinces.Recommend

Administratively it is important do treat Karachi and adjoining areas as a province since Karachi is like a mini Pakistan and it can generate lot of revenue efficently for the country. Small areas can be managed easily and Karachi could become country’s Singapore. This thing would greatly help Sindh rural with lot of new trade lines would be created their. Besides many coastal Sindh region would be developed on modern lines. Sindh rural would be the biggest beneficiary.Recommend

“He said Karachi should also be made into a small province.”
Baahahahahaaaa hhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ahahhhhaa Recommend

Munafiqeen are awake up from long sleep.Recommend

And this statement comes from a clown named shahbaz sharif, who does not have any representation in sindh. Next time he will talk about creating a new province in australia. It is time he should start paying attention to the voices and needs of the very province that he governs and stop wasting time over useless squabbling.Recommend

Amazing, sometimes they talk about Sukoot-e-Dhaka, and now this, are they really a type of men…!! Am feeling sick, they dnt deserve to b in asmmblies, thy shud b sent back to RSA…Recommend

If PPP, MQM and ANP are demanding the division of the Punjab on linguistic lines so why do they fail to understand that same principle can be applied to Khyber Pakhtoonkhawa, Sindh and Balochistan. Pakistan does need new provinces, if political parties do not show maturity and demand linguistic and ethnic apartheid, such reactions will be natural. They need to rethink (with the collaboration of technocrats) the solution of administrative units before its too late. Recommend

Why this distraction?

of course there is a political motive behind it.

But do we need this? At this time?Recommend

so they are making it easy for america to fulfill its objective I mean dividing Pakistan on ethnic lines or blood lines Ya Allah protect this Nation and Ummah from such people and help Pakistani people to understand what’s happening with them

This is all part of the Great Game. Recommend

Well said Shahbaz Sharif . for once we agree to whatever you uttered …………………
Yes , Karachi shoud be carved out to be a new province .

If people are so eager to divide Punjab for a better administative control , why not Sindh ?

Bottomline : if Punjab is to be divided for whatsoever reason , Sindh should also be on the SAME reason .Recommend

PPP PML-N & Q ANP and MQM are fooling Pakistan. They are bathing in dollars and looting Pakistan. When Doctors were on strike Mr. Shahbaz Shareef was attending his brother who was being treated in UK. Why Mr. Sharif Senior was not treated by Pakistani hospital??? All of these corrupt politicians currently sharing power will settle in other countries after completely destroying Pakistan. This is their one point agenda.Recommend

cm punjab is steatment very non politecal the people of south punjab demend the new pravenc all the poltecal party exept pml n fever of new pravenecRecommend

Normally, I will not agree with Sharif(s), but it is not at all a bad idea to divide the country in as many Provinces, as possible. This will only strenghten the country and will be good to devolve power to grass root level. Just look how many new States have bee created in India, since partittion!!! Recommend

Loads of crap from a Sherif, as usual.Recommend

SS fails to understand the word democracy, its rule by the people. People of South Punjab and Hazara are demanding a separate province the people of Karachi are not.

maybe the Mohajir community would want one but there has been not such a demand on formal or informal level. Especially by its biggest representative the MQM.

So here comes SS thrusting his will on people of other provinces!Recommend

@Inam Abbas: More new provinces will only create more levels of unecessary burocracy. Will the creation of new provinces fix any problems? I don’t think so. We just need to manage our existing provinces better. What sense would it make to further divide the best run province in Pakistan? To make it less efficient is somehow going to help the other provinces? I don’t think so.Recommend

@Faraz:
When some body from south Punjab like Khosa or Khar are ruling Punjab, we do not hear such voices? It looks like, the real problem is just a dissent towards center? If not so why not then, why now?
Technically, Pakistan’s population has grown t0 180 million, we should make at least 20 provinces or make all the districts as provinces. This will also reduce the ethnic tensions between different people and provide bettwer managment.Recommend

Shahbaz given excellent idea should be sindh divide into 2 parts Recommend

Divide all provinces in to piecesRecommend

Punjab was divided at time of partition so no more division of PunjabRecommend

I agree with him. Recommend

the largest part of pakistan i.e punjab should be divided first at least into 3parts .. wig brother just trying to divert attention from punjab to sindh.Recommend

on administrative basis sindh should be divided into two parts southern and northen sindh.it is good idea to manage province properly.sindh is so large and one executive can handle it as result of which rural and backwarded areas of sindh remained underdeveloped.Recommend

you are right bro

@induswolf:Recommend

Assalam-o-Allaikum Warahmatullah.What the policy of dividing Pakistan into more provinces our present corrupt,NRO certified and beggars leaders are adopting and if this process continues then on the completion of 5-year tenure Pakistan shall be divided into many provinces/parts and it may be possible that Pakistan could be the next Bangladesh.Very strangely and surprisingly Pakistan Army having powers to do every thing is watching all this drama of weakening and distributing Pakistan into provinces only as a silent spectator without taking any solid steps to eradicate such this type of policy of dividing and rule by the major political parties.Recommend

zia once said, i want to create 100 provinces in Pakistan. Central bureaucracy has an old desire to control provinces and followed Indian example. It is easy to divide provinces to twist their arms. Due to that attitude, makers of 1973 constitution approved an article in constitution which restricted central authority to act in consultation with provincial assembly in this matter. So instead of quarreling on issue of division of provinces one should leave it on the PMAs rather than starting blame game. Naturally, if one can demand division of the Punjab from Karachi or Sind than other can demand division of Sind. In such division politics the main beneficiaries will be central bureaucracy civil as well as military, small politicians and opportunists. Decentralization is the only way to transfer power to people yet it should be till union council level. Elected representatives should have an edge on non elected members from national assembly till union council. Otherwise it would prove to be another gimmick of power conflict. Recommend

Taking a page from the Government’s own book:
“Choota kunba, khushhaal gharana” aka “Smaller families, happier household”

Divide the provinces into halves. Not only Punjab but all of them.Recommend

I hope we aren’t confusing the definition of ‘provinces’ with ‘cities’ and ‘districts’Recommend

Pakistan will definitely get out of the crisis after this power distribution. Division of provinces is something which should be done quite a long ago…still not too late though. Sweden is half of Pakistan (area-wise) and has 25 provinces. It eases the administration part. The power really comes to the people.Recommend

Its like renaming your grown children: I THINK YOU SHOULD ASK THEMRecommend

I have an idea so good that Shahbaz will say “shabaash” !
Why not make all the states into separate countries? Since Pakistanis like freedom, this will give them more freedom. If you like my idea please hit the “Recommend” button. I have many more ideas if you need them. Recommend

As far as I have read, there use to be a constitution that when a population of certain boundries crosses the number of 1 Crore then it should be declared as a separate province. With this fact KHI, LHR,FBD will become separate provinces. Then they will have thier own funds to be managed and the portion they’ll give to fedral govt and they’ll spend it on bigger provinces. But there is nothing wrong with it.Recommend

Those who question the need to divide Sindh, need to ask themselves if ethnic divide present in Karachi is more obvious or in Punjab?

1000′s of people have died in this power struggle. Separate this city along with Hyderabad to a separate province.Recommend

What Shahbaz Sharif has said was from utter desperation when many leaders including A-Z were promoting the idea of break up of Punjab into several provinces on ethnic basis. I suspect what Shahbaz Sharif meant was what would others feel if Karachi was carved out as a province out of Sindh on ethnic lines and the history is witness that MQM has had plans of mohajiristan or Jinnahpur.

His statement should be welcomed as he did not mean that Sindh should be broken into pieces and he was quite clear who wanted that and it also brought a knee jerk reaction of denial by a minion of MQM.

MQM can not throw dust into the eyes of the people by claiming itself as an organisation which represents the population across the spectrum. It is an undeniably an ethnic organisation. Its claim of being a real national party is untenable.

Mr Shahbaz Sharif did a favour to the people of Pakistan to unnerve MQM who though came out with a denial from a ‘spokesaman’ but in real sense this was just a lip service. On the very evening Babar Gahuri, who was introduced as most close to Altaf Hussain by an anchor, came out with a denial but was half hearted. He did not categorically rule out Karachi being a province. His words were ‘ MQM has so far not demanded a separate province‘
MQM does indeed have ulterior motives but to entertain such an idea by this organisation is fraught with grave consequences.Recommend

PLAYING WITH non issues is an old habit and this is another issue to detrack from orignal issues.zia once said, i want to create 100 provinces in Pakistan. Central bureaucracy has an old desire to control provinces and followed Indian example. It is easy to divide provinces to twist their arms. Due to that attitude, makers of 1973 cons…titution approved an article in constitution which restricted central authority to act in consultation with provincial assembly in this matter. So instead of quarreling on issue of division of provinces one should leave it on the PMAs rather than starting blame game. Naturally, if one can demand division of the Punjab from Karachi or Sind than other can demand division of Sind. In such division politics the main beneficiaries will be central bureaucracy civil as well as military, small politicians and opportunists. Decentralization is the only way to transfer power to people yet it should be till union council level. Elected representatives should have an edge on non elected members from national assembly till union council. Otherwise it would prove to be another gimmick of power conflict. posted at tribune yet still in does not appear thereSee MoreRecommend

Typical of Pakistani politicians
say a thing one day
take back the words next day……..Recommend

Oh cmon people think big
4 provinces- the idea hasnt worked in 63 years
lets make more provinces
Karachi should be a province but we should start with something smaller first and no ethnicity pleaseRecommend

JAVED HASHMI’S LOVE FOR PAKISTAN On 21st April 2011, while addressing to press outside parliament, one of the veteran leaders of PML(N) reiterated his keen desire in terms of love for Pakistan at the cost of the division of Punjab. In the same tone he apologized to his beloved abstract ‘Pakistani masses’ for being the part of Zia-ul-Haq’s cabinet. Yes, the same dictator, who abetted the racist Urdu speaking mafia in Sindh and hatched and supported the separatist elements in terms of so-called Saraiki nationalists to counter the anticipated emerging nationalistic movement of Punjabis to seek their linguistic/cultural, financial/economical and political rights like Bangalis, Sindhis, Pashtoons & Balochs. As the myopic vision of said dictator vis-à-vis UPite/Urdu speaking version of Islam and fake Pakistaniat couldn’t have cognized the true spirit of said universal religion synchronizing completely with all laws of nature. Having enjoyed the rule in Zia-ul-Haq’s de facto regime later on if Javed Hashmi couldn’t fulfill his desires to rule as Chief Minister or Prime Minister while being the part of PML(N), what is the fault of poor Punjabi masses from Sadiqabad to Attock, who have been electing his whole party’s 5th columnist Punjabis from Punjab??? What is the defect in central Punjab’s downtrodden masses from Lahore, who elected Javed Hashmi…and if his own party’s stupid leader built a road at the cost of 2 billion from Lahore to Raiwind, should the Punjabis living in miserable conditions in the slums of central Lahore, suburbs and in its proximities??? Who lives in the posh areas of Lahore & Islamabad, are they not the landlord Southern Punjabi/so-called Saraiki politicians and nationalists??? Who has been ruling on TAKHT-E-LAHORE & TAKHT-E-ISLAMABAD mostly since before 1947 from Punjab??? If Javed Hashmi desperately claims that whether his party gives him ticket for next election or not, he would carry on speaking truth…but I would suggest him don’t speak partial truth, as it is far worse than complete lie…so we Punjabis shall have to speak the above described full truth keeping in view the perverted nature of such Punjabi politicians…However loudly Javed Hashmi and his racist Urdu speaking mafia’s subjugated ‘Punjabi establishment’ carry on making Punjabis and some other native nations desperate having showed a bleak picture of this federation by projecting that ‘if new provinces are not made, it would be dangerous for Pakistan, and we (as Javed Hashmi warned) want Pakistan rather Punjab’…Hence let me explicitly reiterate that if any single existing province/entity/unit of this federation is divided, that would be the final nail in the coffin of this federation…! Therefore, I would say we nationalist want intact Sindh, Pashtoonkhwa, Balochistan and Punjab as the peace and prosperity in this federation lies in the security of the said 4 units of this federation…! Recommend

@Adnan

Guess you need to take a trip to Punjab to see who listens to him and who doesn’t, Thats CM Punjab not CM Sindh that we shouldn’t take him seriouslyRecommend

I feel like saying………….Haaaa haaaa haaaahaaaaa.

Mr. CM – this is 21 Century and Electronic Media is running around like hounds for bits of news.

A statement once reordered electronically cannot be denied or clarified next day like this.

You can not enjoy the luxury that politicians of 20th century enjoyed.

So, THINK before you speak. Recommend

I was really surprised to see too much reaction from all the political parties who claim to be the national parties. Their reax showed that they are only Sindh based parties. If you can propose the bifurcation, trifurcation and even unlimited balkanization of Punjab, why not a politician can talk of bifurcation of Sindh on the same lines. Recommend