Another province can be created in Punjab - PM

[pak-marine]

Another province can be created in Punjab if people want, says PM Agencies (3 hours ago) Today


BAHAWALPUR: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Monday said that another province could be created in Punjab if that was what the public wanted, DawnNews reported.

Speaking to media representatives in Bahawalpur, Prime Minister Gilani said making Bahawalpur a province was a constitutional issue and that one or even two provinces could be created in Punjab if that was what the people wanted.

Prime Minister Gilani said he would not comment on Zulfiqar Mirza’s statement of Sunday. He however said that Pakistan People’s Party’s reconciliation policy would continue.

He further said the government would handle the Raymond Davis case keeping in view Pakistan’s interests.

“We have to put our country first. [We] will do whatever will be in Pakistan’s best interest,” Prime Minister Gilani told media representatives in response to questions regarding the US national who had killed two Pakistanis in Lahore.

He rejected Opposition’s claims that fake documents had been prepared for Raymond Davis.

“We don’t need to prepare fake documents,” he said.

When asked about Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s 10-point agenda, Gilani said the committees of Pakistan People’s Party and PML-N would have a detailed exchange of views on the implementation of agenda items.

He said the committees would take the nation into confidence.

He said the government was following reconciliatory politics and believed that a single party could not take the nation out of crises without the support of all political parties.

About the status of former foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi in the PPP, Gilani said: He [Qureshi] is in the party, will be in it and will not do anything against the party.

He said after meeting with PPP Co-Chairperson Asif Ali Zardari, Qureshi would “tow the party line”.

Gilani said he himself was holding the portfolio of foreign minister until the naming of a new minister.

 

[Imran Khan]

bla bla bla we are not educated as world . in pakistan provences and very sencitive matter so let it like now. we dont wanna face new problems.even i am from saraiki belt.

 

[Evil Flare]

but new provinces should be made .. its necessity

 

[Frankenstein]

but new provinces should be made .. its necessity

disagreed, if you want unity, then finish this province system

 

[blackops]

arent they all autonomous will the new one will also be autonomous
just wanted to ask no flames intended

 

[Frankenstein]

arent they all autonomous will the new one will also be autonomous
just wanted to ask no flames intended

Sir, the topic clearly says "Province" not a "Territory"

 

[Imran Khan]

no need more mess more divided nation no more sindhi punjabi balochi bathan kashmiri saraiki makrani

 

[Last Hope]

Illetrate. Break us down, divide us, and then rule on us?
The more we talk about unity, the more you break us to suck our Love, respect and emotions for other brothers.

Only a insane PM can talk about this.

 

[Imran Khan]

he think public of multan bhawalpur is crazy? and we think he is crazy. public need education health and prices down and he is bashing on some thing else to make us happy.

 

[ajtr]

Peoples wishes for new province must be respected.Why not ask the people of region itself through referendum for saraiki province.

 

[greatsequence]

South Punjab has a very strong case for a province. They were never part of punjab and dont like to be reffered as punjabis. Even the core people of Pothwar region dont call them selves as punjabi and when talkeing about the central punjab regions say "this is how it is in Punjab"(Punjab mai aisa hota hai). I think it should be done.

 

[Truth Teller]

South Punjab has a very strong case for a province. They were never part of punjab and dont like to be reffered as punjabis. Even the core people of Pothwar region dont call them selves as punjabi and when talkeing about the central punjab regions say "this is how it is in Punjab"(Punjab mai aisa hota hai). I think it should be done.

My mother is Potohari, she and her whole family consider themselves Punjabis.

 

[Jungibaaz]

no!!! no more division among us.

thank you!

 

[pak-marine]

"PML-Q will make South Punjab a new province"



Chaudhary Pervez Elahi promises to make South Punjab a separate province.
MULTAN: Chaudhary Pervez Elahi has said that PML -Q will make South Punjab a separate province by confronting all the conspiracies and difficulties.
Addressing the ‘Make South Punjab Province’ rally on Wednesday, he reiterated that PML-Q will continue its efforts for the people of South Punjab to award new provincial status for South Punjab adding that PML-Q during its tenure had accomplished developmental projects of worth Rs117 billion in the region, while the incumbent Punjab government has announced only Rs15 billion.
He also emphasized that the movement that PML-Q has initiated will meet its desired results to award new provincial status for South Punjab adding that the leadership of PML-N has visited London more times than South Punjab.
The former chief minister further pointed out that PML-N has betrayed the nation by supporting the name ‘Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa’ adding that PML-Q will not only make South Punjab a separate province but would also struggle to award separate provincial status for Hazara.

 

[Evil Flare]

up to 100 million population of Punjab ... S Punjab is so backwards .. all attention on N Punjab ... Managing such a huge population is almost impossible by 1 provincial assembly ..