Senate body approves new provinces bill
Senate body on Wednesday approved the bill regarding formation of new provinces.
ISLAMABAD: The Senate’s Standing Committee on Law and Justice has approved the parliamentary committee’s report pertaining to the formation of new provinces with a majority. The report was rejected by the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz.
Federal law minister Farooq H Naik is of the view that the bill would be tabled in the Senate next week.
The committee consists of Law Minister Farooq Naek, Aitzaz Ahsan, Jehangir Badar, Farhatullah Babar, Raja Zafarul Haq and Zafar Ali Shah.
Rejecting the report, Senator Raja Zafarul Haq from the PML-N stated that it was incomplete as there was no mention of distribution of sources among provinces.
Law Minister Naek stated that the formation of provinces would be done on administrative not ethnic basis, adding that the constitution did not prohibit the formation of new provinces. It needed only one amendment in the Article of the constitution, said Law Minister.
