The news for the announcement of new province 'Saraikistan' on 14 August is in the air, though Mr Zerdari has negated the statement. Why N league is so reluctant to formulate it? and it seems as if PPPP has played the card of new province quite in time, as keeping an eye on the massacres in Karachi? It might be a best way to divert political attention.
What is the probability that Punjab Assembly will approve the bill for new province and if ever there will be Saraikistan, how long it will take to establish its boundary and government?

In my point of view,
PPPP Government is throwing thier last card before the next elections to increase their voting quota especially in the people of saraiki speaking.Moreover, PPPP Governement has failed to provide good governance and also failed to make any good coalitoin partners as they do not want to share power and exercise the power as the Centralized Authority as Dictators do despite of Democracy.
So PPPP Governement are using tricks like these to be on the safe side.
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MLN is also working on its plan to counter this strategy. they may present a bill for the formation of new provinces through out the country. as there has been a demand for Hazara and Karachi provinces. Karachi province is a long standing demand of MQM and PPP is a stiff opponent of this demand.
The MLN reasining that the new provinces should be framed on administrative basis has a sufficient stance in it. PMQ is using the issue as a trap to secure its Chief ministership in the saraiki belt.

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I , personally, believe that there should be more provinces in the country. The PPP is creating Seraikistan to divide the PML votes not on the basis of administration. Second, the ruling party wants to give a positive gesture to the Seraiki people that the party is sincere for the development of the area. In short, it is the preparation for the next general elections. By creating a province in the Southern Punjab, PML will be restricted to the upper, and from the upper region, its votes will be distributed among PML Q and PTI. In result, the PPP will be back in the provincial governments with the coalition of PML-Q and N will be out of the scene.
If the resolutions is passed in favor of Seraikistan, It will take at least one year for the election commission to demarcate new constituencies, and the new government will be in charge after the general elections.

@ultimate. U will have quota in the federal services. U must be happy.

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But i afraid our slow political proceeding will not declare this quota for the year 2012..... if ever they announced Saraikistan in 2011....

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I think the best way is to designate the provincial powers to Administrative Divisions. This will have two fold effects. 1st, the oppressed people of saraeki belt can be appeased and they will heve ready made remedy. 2nd, the furitive plans of those who want to cajole the masses by this issue can be chided in this way.

Im in favour of Sariakistan but its a time taking process.People of south punjab have suffered alot...their brilliant students have no quota in Central or Provincial services...Every politcal party wants to increase its vote bank..if PPP wants to break PML(N)'vote bank then its not surprising..According to Jawaid Hashmi."Punjab should be divided into four provices-Central Punjab,south Punjab,Bahawalpur and photohar region"...it means all politicians from south punjab favour "Saraikistan"...Punjab Assembly can approve the bill but offcourse pml n will oppose the name of the new province"Sarikistan"...in my point of view,Mr president will never make any annoncement about new province on 14th Ausgust..Parliament will solve this issue now.
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Javeed Hashmi is a real maverick. he does things his own way. I like his brazen nature.

I think this is a step in the right direction.

For too long has the Pakistani state suppressed the regional identities of its citizens, hoping to substitute them by promoting a supposedly safer pseudo-religious "umbrella" alternative.

In 2008, the election issues were about democracy, the judiciary, the war of terror, etc but the political parties have realized that ethnicity-politics will play a major role in the coming elections.

• A Seraiki province makes a lot of sense (though we don't know whether or not the city of D.I.Khan would be included in it). Seraikis are the fourth-largest ethnic group in Pakistan.
  
  
• As for the Hazara province, although there are only some 4 millions Hazarawals, I don't see it as a lost cause. A Hazara province can potentially become a center of prosperity.
  
  
• Furthermore, the northern belt of Balochistan should be merged with Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa so that all of Pakistan's Pashtuns can live under the same provincial government. Doing this would also create a Balochistan that is more than 90% Baloch instead of the present Balochistan, which just over 50% Baloch.
  
  
• Creating Mujahiristan/Jinnahpur out of Karachi and Hyderabad is not feasible for three reasons: a) Muhajirs now represent only 40-45% of Karachi, b) the people of Sindh are violently opposed to the idea of partition and c) 'Muhajirs' are not an ethnic group.

Administrative provinces would leave everyone dissatisfied and hence serve no purpose. At the same time, creating such provinces would enable the locals to promote their language and culture, controlling their resources whilst still within the federation of Pakistan.

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in my opinion creating provinces on ethnic base would be disastrous, we all know we are already divided we can't handle more hatred and fights over muhajir/sindhi and punjabi/siraeki etc secondly i don't know environment of punjab but in sindh there will be great lose of innocent people , lot of people will die JSQM and MQM both are terrorists they will not even think whom they are firing at and throwing grenade. i have heard that in 1990s (during operation and ethnic problems) workers(of political parties) raped each others women so if it is true then it can happen even now. to be honest i personally think Zardari is very clever politician but now ..... !!!

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