Can we afford new provinces?

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Any new province will require:
A governor house, chief minister’s house, assembly building, high court, and a lot of buildings for provincial departments. A governor, chief minister, cabinet members, members of provincial assembly, chief justice, judges and their staff, heads of provincial departments and their staff.
Residential units of all types.
Trillions of rupees to meet all the above expenses.
Can a country which is already under immense financial pressure and running on internal as well as external loans, afford the experience of one or more provinces to be created as a result of hate based campaign against Punjab?
SHAMSHAD TARIQ
Lahore