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DawnEN

Minister supports creation of up to 12 provinces

<p>• Khawaja Asif says new units should be created on administrative grounds, not linguistic, ethnic or political lines <br>• Calls for transfer of powers, resources from provincial capitals to local institutions <br>• MQM-P renews demand for new administrative units; calls for ending ‘deprivation’ of urban Sindh</p> <p>SIALKOT / KARACHI: As a debate around

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DawnEN

New provinces, old solutions

<p>MANY years ago, a senior official of a multilateral development bank delivered a harsh indictment of Pakistan’s state of affairs: it is a seriously large country run by a succession of non-serious policymaking elite. While the setting for the delivery of this critique was an informal one, it left one pondering its accuracy. Sadly, Pakistan’s ruling elites

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DawnEN

Cost of provinces

<p>THE cost would be steep. We all knew that. An Islamabad-based think tank has now put figures to those costs. That gives a fiscal dimension to a debate that has largely been driven by political demands and promises of better administration.</p> <p>The Policy Research Institute of Market Economy <a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/2040850">estimates</a> that

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‘Very little, if anything, done for KP’: PM Shehbaz rails against PTI’s governance in province

<p>Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday criticised PTI’s governance in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, questioning whether the funds available to the now dysfunctional provincial government had been used transparently for the welfare and betterment of the people of the province.</p> <p>His remarks came during a meeting of the PML-N’s parliamentary party from KP, he

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DawnEN

‘Very little, if anything, has been done for KP’: PM Shehbaz rails against PTI’s governance in province

<p>Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday criticised PTI’s governance in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, questioning whether the funds available to the now dysfunctional provincial government had been used transparently for the welfare and betterment of the people of the province.</p> <p>His remarks came during a meeting of the PML-N’s parliamentary party in Khyber P

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DawnEN

New provinces to carry heavy cost

<p>ISLAMABAD: A private think tank has found more fiscal faults than benefits of the much-discussed creation of new provinces, advising priority to stronger local governments instead of new provinces if public service delivery was actually intended.</p> <p>In its latest market analysis release on Thursday, Policy Research Institute of Market Economy (Prime)

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DawnEN

Bilawal calls for 'full stop' on conversations about new provinces

<p>PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Tuesday called for a “full stop” to conversations regarding the creation of new provinces.</p> <p>He made the remarks while speaking to the media at Spencer Eye Hospital in Karachi’s Lyari alongside Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah.</p> <figure class='media w-full sm:w-1/2 media--right media--embed media--une

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Bilawal says should put a 'full stop' on conversation about new provinces

<p>PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari said on Tuesday that a “full stop” should be put to conversations regarding the creation of new provinces and a rollback of the 18th Amendment.</p> <p>He made the remarks while speaking to the media at Spencer Eye Hospital in Karachi’s Lyari alongside Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah, Karachi Mayor Murtaza Wahab

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Bangkok PostEN

Flooding in Bangkok and 20 provinces

Flooding persisted in parts of Bangkok and in 20 provinces, mostly in the Central Plains, but water levels were declining, the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation reported on Monday.&nbsp;

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DawnEN

Over 500 ‘illegal’ Afghans held in three provinces

<p>ISLAMABAD: Undocumented Afghan nationals continue to be arrested by authorities, and a<a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" class="link--external" href="https://pakistan.iom.int/sites/g/files/tmzbdl1121/files/documents/2026-10/unhcr-iom-flash-update-115.pdf"> joint report</a> of IOM and UNHCR says over the past one week, 517 Afghans were arrested f

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