Seraiki province

None other than the president of Pakistan has declared the making of Saraiki province now. One does not know which statement issued by Zardari is that of as the President of Pakistan or as Co-chairman of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) or even as a commoner?
Recently, he went to India as a private visitor. Earlier, he went to Myanmar with his family as a private visitor. Assefa decorated the leader with Nishan-e-Imtiaz. Anyway, confused as we are with this innovative set up, we are entering into province-making era now. Let us, by the stroke of pen, also make Hazarra province. Hazarra people are suffering in Hazarra, in Quetta and in Karachi. Karachi is a continuous place of suffering.
MQM are the greatest victim of these atrocities. Karachi should be declared as a province, including Hyderabad. FATA is the epicentre of all terrorism. Let FATA people manage their province. By the way, Saraiki province should have Muzzafargarsh, Bhakhar right upto Mianwali belt included.
This will solve Imran Khan’s problem also. Three out of 140 odd tribes in Balochistan are trouble makers (so says the genius Musharraf). Let us declare Bugti, Mengal and Kallat as a province too. These provinces will solve all the ailing diseases of Pakistan. Of course, the demand of Bahawalpur province is that of Shahbaz Sharif. Why deprive Durrani of his demand backed by Sharifs?
Let Pakistan have governors and CMs and army of cabinet and advisors and special assistants. Pakistan’s administrative budget will then be financed by IMF and ADB together.
We already have swollen federal cabinet, advisors and special assistants. Japan should supply 1500 or more new Toyotas. Germany should already book order for 100 BMWs or Mercs and about 2000 more Cruisers and Double Cabins for the entourage.
We need 15 Lear jets and much more to facilitate new comers. This formula is a lot easier to win the election than holding stupid public rallies of thousands of hundreds of poor people as is being done by Imran Khan. PPP is a genius under the command of Zardari.
AMJAD H MIRZA
Lahore

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President Zardari has vowed to create Seraiki province, dividing the Punjab province into two, and has advised the government to establish Seraiki Bank, which seems to be a move towards that goal.
Unfortunately the Chaudhrys of Gujrat and some other politicians both individually and on party levels, particularly who have aligned with the PPP government, are seemingly helping the move to turn the Southern part into a province.
Either they are not aware that this is aimed at not only weakening the political base and ending the political dominance of Punjab, but also to pose dent to the economic structure, water distribution and industrial development of which Punjab is considered the backbone. Even the PML-N is very much vocal and of late favouring the making of more provinces.
This is going to open Pandora’s Box and the demand of Hazara province, Jinnahpur, making FATA a separate province, and dividing Balochistan into various provinces will lead to virtual breakup of the country.
In fact the region can be subjugated by simply dividing Pakistan into more provinces, and there is no need to conduct any direct attack, denuclearize the nation, dismantle its army or cripple its economy under the said to be international conspiracy of reshaping the entire region and redrawing the maps.
The economy of Punjab, its manpower, skilled workmanship and agriculture produce are not only the backbone of the defence of the country, but also the security of Pakistan. This needs to be understood by the political leadership, the government and the security establishment. Particularly the timing is not appropriate for such a move.
ALYA ALVI
Rawalpindi