A row ensued in the National Assembly on Tuesday as the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) and Awami National Party (ANP) leaders argued over the creation of new provinces in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP).
In a NA session chaired by Nawab Yousuf Talpur, the MQM presented a recommendation that called for the creation of new provinces of Hazara and South Punjab and said that the matter should be debated upon in the assembly.
During the session, the MQM leader Haider Abbas Rizvi said that new provinces should be created in Punjab and KPK.
However, ANP leader Ghulam Ahmed Bilour reacted by saying that the division of KP would not be tolerated, adding that a party which could not secure any seats in KP had no right to speak of the province’s division.
“We have never talked of dividing Sindh, so why should KP be divided,” said Bilour.
A heated argument between the two parties followed, due to which the assembly’s proceedings had to be halted for 20 minutes.
MQM, ANP quarrel over new provinces in NA
