Yes, a thousand times yes, so do most linguists and just listening to multani dialect or understanding what someone in bhawalpur is saying can give you a hint on why we believe this to be the case
And no I have no relationship with East Punjab before you pull that cringe worthy and weird criteria - -except from my mother side but you know we decent from our father who always had buisnesses in Lahore and gujaranwala since as far as we can trace back
No I don't necessarily oppose new provinces but I do oppose dividing Punjab along fake, made up 21st lines
If you wanna divide, call it an administrative division of North, south, central Punjab okay but no to made up new so-called identities that separate a thousands year old identity of Punjab
Serakistan is not Punjab - that's where majority of our folk stories came, our dynasties were based out of those regions, sandal bar is partly in this so-called saraikistan, we have shared clans, some of our saints are common, style of poetry can go and on with it
We were all ch and now suddenly there's a awakening that all of us were wrong historically but now it's a new thing... Slow clap
And lol at potahar, ask them and they'll laugh at you
What y'all are doing is- dividing up historical regions of Punjab along fake lines and saying they're a new thing
This is common agenda
That's stupid but okay... Not necessarily against new provinces but I am against creating new saraiki BS to achieve it
If y'all say South Punjab due to administrative reason want to do it's own thing okay, but you're saying south punjab was never Punjab in the first place
Than this I'll oppose as it's ridiculous, it's an attack against our history, unity as people, virsa