PTI leaders back calls for Hazara province

ABBOTTABAD: Following the clamour from the opposition parties on creating a separate province for the areas falling under the Hazara division, leaders from the ruling party-backed the call on Sunday, urging Peshawar to set up a separate wing of the Civil Secretariat for the region before embarking on such an endeavour.

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Hazara division President Ali Asghar Khan on Sunday urged elected representatives in the K-P Assembly to pass a resolution on creating the Hazara province with a two-thirds majority — which his party holds.

Addressing a news conference on Sunday, Ali said that the provincial assembly had already adopted a motion in this regard on March 21, 2014. But six years on, little progress has been made in the legislative corridors.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 16^th, 2020.