Comments on: New province, old motives?

By: Jamal

Jamal — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

An ancient problem with an ancient solution – The Greek City states, after all people live in large settlements, with a concentrated centre, the modern age is no different. Let’s map them to cities and their surrounding conurbations. This is will probably be very hard to sell to the public, so the easier option would be to make the districts provinces in their own right.

By: Jamal

Jamal — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Takes one to know one…huh

By: Bokhari

Bokhari — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Irrespective of politicisation of issue, delaying tactics of ‘some’ media ‘factions’ (marginalised areas saraiki especially has less representation in media) and parties the creatiom of provinces is the ultimate sollution for grievances of neglected and marginalised areas & it will be remembered who favored the right.

By: manish

manish — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

SIR
your intentions are good but you are comparing apples to oranges. canadians have a history of say 300 years, an ordinary pakistani, on the other hand, derives inspiration from period before 1700s, so it would be like divorcing them from history. it never works and never will.
tell us can canadians now rename canada as islampur or iran? no because they have developed their culture around this name and will oppose any such move. the earlier you realise, the better it would be for you and your country.

By: Rahan

Rahan — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Hazara is not matter of reaction to legitimate reaction to renaming NWFP but it is need and demand of the people. Infact it the demand form Hazara that initiated the debate for new provinces. Smaller administrative units are necessary for development, peace and security of the country. Theories of ethnicity for having big and separate entities will not work any more. Small efficiently and effectively administrated units will be demand from every province soon

By: Adnan

Adnan — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I think it would be very good for the administration of Sindh if it can be further divided into a few administrative units for better management.

By: Jamal

Jamal — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Influence, as the opposition? As for Baluchistan there is no denying that Quetta is a Pathan city, with a clear Pathan majority, so maybe Quetta should become a federal province in it’s own right, as should Karachi which should have remained the capital, and never have been amalgamated with Interior Sindh.

By: Jamal

Jamal — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Examples of good governance in Punjab, maybe you should visit the barrier town development in Lahore, it is magnificent. An example that benefits the whole country is the city of Faisalabad, it’s continuing growth, aided ably by the provincial government, the only thing holding it back from overtaking Lahore one day is the crippling power cuts!

By: Arbab Zahid Ali

Arbab Zahid Ali — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Delegation of power by adopting any of the methodologies is a lucrating decision. It enables the government to address the problems as the target population becomes more defined. We can relate it to a marketing strategy of segmentation and further leading to niche, by focusing the target market more closely and precisely. To be optimistic, the administration of such a huge and fast growing population in five segments is practically impossible, but this segmentation should not be based on ethnic or linguistic disintegration, which can lead into grevience among masses. If we observe the current situation, the Balochi’s have a separate province constituting 4 % of the population but Siraiki’s despite of being 10% not previledged. I urge to the policy makers to simply divide the population by a scaling method, not on the basis of ethnic or linguistic divisions which will certainly protect the unity, a major pilar of the three.

By: Asif iqbal

Asif iqbal — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I’m from india, and i believe its a good step by our pakistani brothers to make new provinces on the basis of language. In india we have 29 states and each state has its own language. making new provinces has in turn united we indians. Now talking about punjab, indian punjab region at the time of partition is already divided in to three states – punjab, haryana and himachal pradesh on linguistic nd administrative grounds.