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The issue of the creation of new provinces has become a hotly debated one. It has started with the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Hazara) and Punjab (Saraiki and Bahawalpur) but may not begin or end there. While supporting the creation of new provinces may appear an easy way out for the politicians, it is going to be a difficult task to actually carve them out. Once the genie is out it will not be possible to force it back into the bottle. Like creation of new districts, addition of provinces would become a political appeasement tool in a run up to each election. At the end of the day, country is likely to end up having a provincial map very close to an existing administrative entity called ‘Division’.1 In this paper, an effort has been made to discuss the issue of the creation of new provinces in Pakistan. This paper starts with explanation of federation and its units. It will move on to discuss what will be its negative implications on the future of this land as well its creation of sub units on ethnic and administrative lines. A constitutional debate will follow to assess what the 1973 constitution says about having more provinces.

Syed Hussain Shaheed Soherwordi, Shahid Ali Khattak. (2014) THE CREATION OF NEW PROVINCES IN PAKISTAN AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR AN INTEGRATED COUNTRY, Journal of the Research Society of Pakistan, Volume 51, Issue 1.
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