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Mustafa Kamal Says Referendum Will Decide New ProvincesPakistan
MQM-Pakistan leader Mustafa Kamal says a referendum will decide the creation of new provinces and December will be important, as debate over administrative restructuring continues.
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Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) leader and Federal Health Minister Mustafa Kamal has said a referendum will be held for the creation of new provinces, adding that December will be an important month, Geo News reported.
Addressing district central office-bearers and workers in Karachi, Kamal said Pakistan stood at a highly important and decisive turning point, and the dreams of the past were now becoming reality.
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He said enemies of new provinces wanted the linguistic units of the city and the province to fight each other. He said the time had come to bury the feudal, wadera and capitalist system in the country.
Kamal said the Pakistan Peoples Party did not represent the whole of Sindh, and added that Sindhi nationalists were enemies of the Sindhi people themselves.
He said the opinion of all parties was necessary on the question of new provinces, adding that whatever happened would happen through consensus, not through disagreement.
Kamal said the creation of new, smaller provinces had become inevitable and Karachi could pull Pakistan out of the economic crisis.
The debate over new provinces has intensified in recent weeks. Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi has called for a referendum, arguing that the public should have the final say, while Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Tariq Fazal Chaudhry has said parliament and the provincial assemblies cannot be bypassed in the process.
Kamal has described the creation of smaller provinces as a national necessity, saying Pakistan’s existing administrative structure cannot effectively manage the country. His remarks came as the MQM-P supported the creation of new provinces and called for a national dialogue among political parties, citing population growth, governance challenges and the concentration of political authority.
The Sindh government has rejected the calls. Sindh government spokesperson Sadia Javed has said raising the demand for new provinces was the final chapter of the MQM’s political bankruptcy, and the Pakistan Peoples Party has said it has no reason to fear, advising the MQM to focus on its own vote bank.
The Sindh Assembly unanimously passed a resolution on September 3 rejecting proposals to divide Sindh or change its territorial boundaries. Under the Constitution, a matter of national importance can be referred to a referendum after approval by a joint sitting of parliament, but a referendum alone cannot create a new province; any change to provincial boundaries must follow the constitutional amendment procedure.
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