Pakistan to bifurcate Punjab to create new South Punjab province

with the aid of PTI

LAHORE: The Pakistan govt is going ahead with its plan to create the brand new South Punjab province by means of bifurcating Punjab and would flow a invoice in the national meeting, foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi introduced on Wednesday.

Punjab is Pakistan's 2nd largest province by means of enviornment after Balochistan. it's additionally essentially the most populated province and politically influential. within the run-as much as the 2018 typical election, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) birthday party led by using Imran Khan had promised to bifurcate Punjab province to kind South Punjab.

The South Punjab province will comprise Multan, Bahawalpur and Dera Ghazi Khan districts, Qureshi advised newshounds in Multan, Punjab. The Punjab assembly seats may be reduced to 251 from the current 371 whereas a hundred and twenty seats were proposed for the South Punjab assembly within the invoice.

Qureshi observed that certain constitutional amendments need to be handed for the formation of the new South Punjab province. The place will develop into a province when amendments to Articles fifty nine, fifty one, 1, 106, 158 and 218 of the charter are handed. "The be aware 'South Punjab' in the first paragraph of Article 1 might be inducted, and the territories that will be part of south Punjab were named in the proposed bill," he changed into quoted as asserting by using the express Tribune. "The province will come into being through Article 51, it calls for the separate formation of the meeting. South Punjab will also get illustration in the Senate," he pointed out.

On Monday, PTI lawmaker Sami-ul-Hassan Gillani tabled the charter (change) bill 2019 earlier than Parliament, calling for the advent of a separate South Punjab province, Geo news suggested. The deliberate South Punjab province should be the sixth province of Pakistan after Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab, Sindh and Gilgit Baltistan.

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Qureshi, a senior leader of the ruling PTI, referred to that the national assembly Speaker will formulate a different committee for consent on the invoice. "We require co-operation of distinctive events for a two-thirds majority, talked about Qureshi.

Qureshi referred to that he had held a gathering with Pakistan Peoples celebration's (PPP) management. "I request them to guide us because it is in our joint hobbies and a part of the PTI manifesto.We agree with it strengthens a federation, and have decided to cling political talk with like-minded political parties," he said. Qureshi additionally requested the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) to help the invoice. "i'm hopeful they are going to review their angle over it," he spoke of.

The national assembly, Pakistan's lessen house, has a complete 342 seats, which ability the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf needs 228 votes to get its means. The PTI has 157 lawmakers. The Pakistan Muslim League-N has 84 contributors and the Pakistan Peoples birthday party has fifty four lawmakers in Parliament. There are four independents.

To get the South Punjab invoice permitted, the PTI would best need the guide of the PPP, if the PML-N opts to dwell out of the vote count number, Geo news mentioned. The PPP guide will even be mandatory in the Senate the place the celebration has an higher hand, the report said.

in the meantime, PML-N Secretary usual Ahsan Iqbal noted Qureshi turned into fooling individuals on the identify of South Punjab. Iqbal stated the PML-N had already offered a bill in the country wide meeting for the formation of the South Punjab and Bahawalpur provinces. but the invoice become hostile by using the PTI then, he talked about.