PML-N submits resolution for 4 new provinces

Resolution submitted in National Assembly calls for formation of Bahawalpur, FATA, south Punjab and Hazara provinces.


Web Desk May 03, 2012

ISLAMABAD: After Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and its coalition partners passed a resolution for the formation of a south Punjab province, Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML) submitted a resolution for the formation of four new provinces in the country.

The resolution submitted in the National Assembly calls for the formation of Bahawalpur, FATA, south Punjab and Hazara provinces.

Earlier today, the National Assembly had successfully passed a resolution for the formation of a new province carved out of south Punjab.

Leader of the Opposition Chaudhry Nisar had complained that the speaker had taken up such an important matter without giving notice. He had claimed there was too much noise and questioned how the speaker determined who had voted in favour of the resolution and who had not.

COMMENTS (71)

HM | 11 years ago | Reply

emphasized textNo number of provinces will be of any good the common man.. it is just another means of increasing the number of ministers and office holders for the benefit of these politicians.. for us nothing will change.. what difference does it make if I get robbed by a Pashtun, Punjabi, Sindhi, Balochi or Muhajir.. that fact is I get robbed.

Haris Khan | 11 years ago | Reply

@Faysal: I am very busy in my work but looking at your frivolous remarks, I think a few moments to respond to u would be worthwhile. PMLN (the socalled open-hearted party) is playing political gimmicks in KP in response to PPP south punjab province. KP is the smallest of all provinces. Yet they are bent on dividing it further because they know that Pashtun as a nation is divided (as evidenced in people like you, followers of tsunami, amir muqam etc.). On administrative grounds, Punjab should be divided into 3, Baluchistan into 2 or 3, Sind 2 and KP should stay as 1 province. As for FATA, if it is turned to a new province it would create the worst kind of administrative situation as geographically, socailly and logistically the areas are more closely linked to KP. So no logic of dividing KP on admin grounds. If they want provinces on linguistic basis, then south Punjab and Pashtun areas in baluchistan are ripe cases for new provinces. hazara is not a logical case because more than 50% of population of Hazara is Pashtun who, after the politics of ethnicity started by Baba Haider, are now more loyal to the main Pakhtun land than before.

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