Should Punjab carry Pakistan's burden?

[Iconoclast]

Re: Should Punjab carry Pakistan’s burden?

@Iconoclast

Poplutaion of Punjab 55% Bugdet 871 billion (44%)
Polutaion of Sindh 23% Budget 617 billion (31.2%)
Population KPK 13.5% Budget344 billion
Population of Balochistan 5% Budget 198 billion (10%)
Theseare budget figures of 2013-14 . Punjab gest **LEAST money per capita, Balochistan****MOST **per capita. Sindh gets more than KPK and Punjab percapita and less than Balochistan.

@Ali_Syed

There are reasons why smaller provinces have grievances against Punjab. Being the bigger province, Punjab needs to address them and take the provinces forward.

During the past 60 years, Punjab used resources of other provinces while the provinces where they were being produced were kept deprived.

This is the well head price for extraction of gas in the country:

I’ll commend the previous PPP government for altering the NFC award and introducing the 18th amendment whereby giving priority to the provinces producing the resources but it seems PMLN is not happy with that. Call to change gas-sharing formula - DAWN.COM

Pakistani army is predominantly Punjabi, therefore some in the smaller provinces call it Punjabi Army (this needs to be changed). Its good that during the past few years the army has started diversifying.

Why operations can be carried out in other areas of the country other than Punjab?

Why Wali Khan, Bugti, Hakimullah Mehsud & Altaf Hussain are traitors but not Malik Ishaq and Masood Azhar?

FIRSTLY, quoting the well head price just tells one side of the story. You have to take into account the operational costs of gas produced in each province and when it was discovered. The gas discovered and produced later will need a lot more infrastructure development, operational costs and fees to the companies involved than the wells operational for decades. Secodnly, if Punjabis were killing Balochs, Muhajirs like what happened in Balochistan and Karachi, I will be very happy for an operation in Punjab.