Saraiki province conference on 5th

Event aimed at spreading awareness about the South Punjab province bill submitted to the Senate

ISLAMABAD:

A Saraiki Province Conference will be held in Islamabad on September 5 (Tuesday).

The event is aimed at spreading awareness about the South Punjab province bill submitted to the Senate.

PML-N Senator Rana Mahmoodul Hasan, who tabled the constitutional bill in the Senate for the establishment of the South Punjab province, will address the conference.

Delegates from the Saraiki belt districts will attend the event. Saraiki jhumar and music have also been organised for the occasion.

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The PML-N lawmaker introduced the bill in the upper house of parliament on January 17 2022 for carving out South Punjab as a separate province. The bill garnered support from both the PTI and PPP.

In July this year, Barrister Syed Ali Zafar, the chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Law and Justice, observed that there were sufficient and important justifications for the creation of South Punjab and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s Hazara region provinces.

“The creation of the provinces would address the economic and political marginalisation of the poor minorities, who are living there,” Zafar maintained.

“At the same time as the number of smaller provinces increases, the federation will become stronger,” he added.

Zafar, however, pointed out that while considering the creation of the new provinces, it must not be based on ethnic as well as linguistic grounds only but should be formed on administrative lines and population.