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Creation of new provinces
I cannot understand why the government thinks only about the plight of the people of southern Punjab.
LAHORE: The National Assembly recently passed a resolution that supported the call for the creation of a new province in southern Punjab. According to the resolution, the new province’s creation would secure the political, economic and administrative interests of the people of the area.
The stated motives of the resolution are praiseworthy, but I cannot understand why the government thinks only about the plight of the people of southern Punjab and not for the deprived people of other regions.
The government should not use the demand for new provinces as an excuse for political point scoring. If it is really sincere about rectifying the grievances of the people of the country, then it should institute a commission consisting of geologists, anthropologists, linguistic experts, unbiased political activists and historians to study the feasibility of creating new provinces. The recommendations of the said commission should be discussed in the National Assembly, Senate and the provincial assemblies in order to generate a consensus on them.
There is no doubt that we need to improve our administrative structure on an urgent basis. That is why our political parties should show some maturity and take this issue seriously, instead of using it as a political bargaining chip.
Muhammad Nadeem
Published in The Express Tribune, May 5th, 2012.
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In this democratic Pakistan, our leaders in Provincial, National & Senate assembalies have failed the Nation, on the basic building block of democratic Pakistan to hold my Union Council (UC) election.
I, as a Pakistani, have no representation for my local issues of my basic needs. Let my UC come togather with other UC, to form my unity into Pakistani Nation building.
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The reason people are so concerned about the so called plight of the people in South Punjab is only political. Punjab is the best run and governed province; How best to weaken its hold and make another unstable province but to separate it from Punjab. This is the game of the people who are trying to make a new province there. We all know that South Punjab’s growth and prosperity will only increase and improve if it stays in Punjab proper. Instead by creating a new province in the South where there is still feudalism, some political people will ensure that the people there won’t develop but stay an idle vote bank.
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Are the people of South Punjab the only deprived people in Pakistan, while rivers of milk and honey flow in Badin, Hazara, FATA, Lyari, Swat, FATA, Rahim Yar Khan, Gwadar,Gilgit, Bhitshah, Balochistan, Karachi’s Kati Pahari, Karachi’s Azizabad, Gotkhi etc. There is no seperate Urban or Rural quota for jobs in Punjab, Baluchistan or even KP, such a divide exists only in Sindh.
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