Tribune Take: Creation of new provinces could set a dangerous precedent
Gibran Peshimam, News Editor of The Express Tribune in Karachi, says that one of the reasons why the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), the Awami National Party (ANP) and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) are at a logger heads despite all wanting the creation of new province(s) in south Punjab was the fact that the MQM had by-passed the provincial assemblies and tabled a resolution in the national assembly.
He says that while both ANP and MQM do not have any support in south Punjab, but the creation of any new province in south Punjab would set a precedent for the creation of other provinces, such as the ethnic Hazara province in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the alleged Jinnahpur state, believed to have been thought up by the MQM.
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@Hameedullah: You are very poor historian. Please read the history first and instead pointing roots. This is why we Pakistani elect these incompetent leaders and send to assembly and expect them to make competent decisions.
strange, u did not publish my comments?????????
OK D'not give us Saraiki province.
Just spend 80% Punjab development budget to Saraikistan for 30 years atleast to compensate for all accesses made against Saraikis.Give us at least 10 universities,5 medical colleges,10 cadet colleges,60% share in provincial jobs,more people in judiciary and in military as well.If it's OK then no problem for us.
Similarly appoint Saraiki lecturers in all districts of Punjab and introduce Saraiki in all Punajb universities as well.Put some provincial offices in Rahimyar Khan too so that people from Lahore should travel there to feel the pain too.If you cannot do htis,then give us our own pprovince.
Long live Saraikistan,Long Live Pakistan.
There should be a new province for the muhajir community of karachi and hyderabad where we live as the majority.if our saraiki brothers are being given a new province,then why not the muhajirs?
There is nothing wrong in breaking up provinces. Decentralization is a good modern tool. Just to give an example the USA has 300 Million people, we are 200 Million people. They have 50 States, we have 4 Provinces. Dividing our inept provinces will help in people being looked after at a macro level. There are a lot more benefits to breaking up the feudal monopolistic provinces ...
What's wrong with provinces on the basis of ethinicity? We tried denying our Bengali friends a right to their ethnicity and see what happened.
If we keep force down the expression of our various ethinicities it will only serve to divide our people, NOT unite them.
There are lot of Muhajirs lived in Bahawalpur, saray alagir, Multan, Rahim yar khan and also in small villages of south punjabs since 1947 and there is little presence of muhajirs in KP also exist. and jinnahpur is a joke of 19th century hahahahahahah