Ridiculously impractical!
There are no 5 or 6 linguistic/ethnic groups in Pakistan, there are 70 to 80 odd, if all of them start asking for their own province hell would break loose.
There are Hindko people in Punjab too, is Punjab willing to give them a province of their own? There are also Potohari and Seraiki people in Punjab all of whom are vehemently opposed to being referred to as Punjabi and take it as a grave insult.
Let’s come to our senses now and not divide our country any further, let us unite as brethren in faith and nationality and learn to share every inch of Pakistan so that a person of Pashtun descent doesn’t feel out of place in Lahore or Karachi, or a person of Mohajir descent in Peshawar or Quetta, or someone of Punjabi descent in Thar…
Let’s oppose the naming of any region after any one ethnic group even if they be the majority, it’s outright discrimination, every province in Pakistan should be given a compass name like NWFP so that every millimetre-squared of our country is the home of any Pakistani regardless of his ethnic descent.
Let’s kill our pride now or we’ll be the ultimate losers, we’ve all had ancestors amongst who they were both rulers and slaves, but let bygones be bygones because pride in ones forefathers is a grave sin in Islam coz we are who we are as indivduals, live for today and tomorrow as Pakistanis or we’ll drown if we keep looking back, accepting Pakistani as our primary identity is the best course of action if we want to succeed, there’s nothing in us for ethnic identities, we can’t afford to give into our egos anymore, if we stay hung up on our ethnic prides we’ll only have our selves to blame for our loss and indeed some of us are backward today because of our own narrow minded outlooks yet we blame others as a convenient scapegoat, nobody can help us if we can’t help ourselves, can’t have your cake and eat it too, if we’re going to be hung up on our ethnic ways regardless of them being backward and outdated and not change a little then we’ve no one but ourselves to blame, a bit of change in priorities has to come in, kuch paaney ke liyey kuch khona parrta hai…
Sorry I went a bit off tangent at the end but it all ties in…
So yeah in short lets not divide Pakistan, and let’s use compass names all over, I can swear some smart arse is going to tell me Punjab is only named after rivers and Sindh after a river but don’t! Because these names now have ethnic connotations, we’ve got to use our brains and go for compass names all over the country, proper names are only practical in a country where all ethnic groups are evenly spread through out or where the whole country is ethnically homogenous, Pakistan isn’t yet and if we keep going the way it never will be, let’s do our bit to try and tone down the multi-ethnic idenities, such things are for educated first world countries to baost about we can’t afford none of that crap, we have to start prmoting the Urdu-speaking Pakistani idenitity all over.
Aye, aye I’ve been enlightened.