MQM-P turns up the heat for new province, says urban Sindh case ‘strongest’
The MQM-P has renewed its push for new provinces, declaring that the case for a separate administrative unit in urban Sindh is stronger than anywhere else in the country and warning that a transparent census and corrected voter lists could force the PPP to confront the demand itself. Speaking at a seminar titled “National Dialogue” organised by the MQM-P Graduate Forum Pakistan at a local hotel on Saturday, party chairman and Federal Education Minister Dr Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui said the demand for new provinces dated back to the APMSO era, well before the formation of the MQM. “Pakistan is our motherland, while provinces are merely administrative units,” Siddiqui said, arguing that provinces should be divided on the basis of population to improve governance and facilitate development. Read: Parliament to decide on creating new provinces: Sanaullah He maintained that although the existing provinces had been formed largely along linguistic lines, the MQM-...