What should be the criteria and mechanism for the formation of new provinces..

[yazdi]

Re: What should be the criteria and mechanism for the formation of new provinces..

@Ali_Syed

While creating new provinces quite a few things need to be checked. First of all I consider people living in that province including the people demanding new province need to be consulted otherwise there could be a lot of blood shed (for example Sindhis and punjabis need to be consulted before creation of new provinces so that the provinces are created with little resistance otherwise we might go towards a civil war instead of reaping the benefits of smaller administrative units).

Like yazdi has mentioned above I believe that the first thing to see would be the feasibility, and second demand for a new province, then I think the step should be to create political awareness and try to politically solve the issue, then the issue would be to demarcate the province. The demarcation would be the tricky bit as if the provinces are created on the basis of ethnicities there is a possibility to have feudals in one province and urban constituencies in another. This scenario can create more Balochistans, the provinces I don’t think should be made on ethnicities as that would open a can of worms. A lot of vision and political will is needed for creation of new provinces but the way the government is going about to create them I fear a lot of blood shed.

I disagree that people other than the newly proposed province should have a say in the formation of such province. After all the people who are really affected by change of demography are the residents of the newly proposed province.

However to safe guard the rights of minority groups in such provinces.. a minimum requirement of 2/3rd majority must be implemented through direct referendum.. this kind of requirement is normal in many parts of the world where people of a certain area want to go under the banner of a separate entity.

Based on agreed mechanism/criteria.. a referendum can also be conducted in Karachi if they want to create a separate province if the majority of legislature from the area make a formal demand for the formation of a new province.. value should be given to people’s choice than a piece of land..