PTI submits resolution on Hazara province in PA

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Beyond party affiliations: Lawmakers from Hazara unite for fifth province
Over two dozen parliamentarians from Hazara division exhibited rare unity, pledging unanimous support to the cause of the Hazara province on Saturday.

The resolution pushing for the creation of a Hazara province was submitted in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Assembly on Friday.

A day later, Federal Minister for Religious Affairs Sardar Muhammad Yousuf, a leader of Tehreek-e-Suba Hazara, a group supporting the Hazara province, hosted a meeting of Hazara-based lawmakers. The 24 parliamentarians met with a single point agenda – the fifth province.

All from Hazara, the group included MNAs, a senator and MPAs belonging to the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl, and the Qaumi Watan Party. Though they have varied political affiliations, the lawmakers have, in the past, publically promised their electorates a Hazara province and now stand united for the cause.

Participants discussed the pros and cons of creating the province and the constitutional requirements for translating their struggle into reality. The lawmakers promised to lobby within party ranks to win the required strength of votes from parliament to carve out Hazara as the fifth constitutional province.

Referring to April 12, 2010 when protesters demanding a Hazara province were fired upon, the parliamentarians demanded an FIR be registered against police personnel and others who resorted to the violence. They unanimously adopted the resolution submitted on Friday and agreed for the need to win the support of their respective parties’ central and provincial leadership so the resolution could be adopted in both the provincial and national assemblies.

It was decided a committee with one lawmaker from each district of Hazara division would hold meetings with political parties having representation in the assemblies and the senate.

The parliamentarians demanded the Hasanabdal to Mansehra Expressway project take the form of a motorway and funds be released by the provincial government for the development of Hazara division.

The lawmakers also offered fateha for the seven protesters who were killed on April 12, 2010.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 8th, 2013

 

[Marwat Khan Lodhi]

hmmmmm

PML N might vote this time in its favour.

ANP will go against it as well as PPP as they don't have a strong vote bank there.

Pashtun MPAs of PTI from peshawer division would oppose this resoulation.

Interestingly imran khan was expecting seats in your hazara division but its people of Peshawer division who gave him most of the seats. What will imran khan do? i participated in his one of abbotabad rally, he did promise hazara province.

 

[mr42O]

As PTI supporter i am against it reason is simple provinces should not be named after ethnic groups.....

 

[Shabaz Sharif]

 

[American Pakistani]

Hopefully South Sindh will become a new province too.

Not only this but Makran, Bahawalpur & South Punjab should be separate provinces too.

 

[Spring Onion]

Pashtun MPAs of PTI from peshawer division would oppose this resoulation.

Interestingly imran khan was expecting seats in your hazara division but its people of Peshawer division who gave him most of the seats. What will imran khan do? i participated in his one of abbotabad rally, he did promise hazara province.

Hazara division had always been strong vote bank of PML N. even the most strong party PPP never had been in lead there.

As far as PTI is concerned, we were not expecting even few seats for it throughout Pakistan let alone KPK , thanks to changing environment and we people of KPK that we love to try new faces when fed up with old ones, we voted for PTI.

BTW not a bad start at all.

PTI brought resolution now its responsibility of PML-N to fulfill desires of its hazara voters, NOT PTI.

 

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As PTI supporter i am against it reason is simple provinces should not be named after ethnic groups.....

Sir you are wrong hazara is not an ethnicity in hazara div, Hazara is geographical region comprising mainly Pakhtoons, Gujjars, kohistanis etc, though Hazara is majority of Pakhtoons(tribes of torghar, Pathan of Batagram, Swati of Mansehra, Tareen and Mishwani of Haripur, Jadoon of Abbottabad and Tanoli are all pathans) yet is has a distinct culture different from that of Pashtu speaking areas of Peshawar Mardan Charsedda etc, and has different language. it is geographically distinct and separated from Peshawar Mardan etc also.
Please don call this as a demand that is based on Ethinicity.

More provences is need of time and a democratic right.
best option is to go for a referendum in Hazara region for Hazara Provence. If ppl say yes then crea new provence.

 

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Pashtun MPAs of PTI from peshawer division would oppose this resoulation.

Interestingly imran khan was expecting seats in your hazara division but its people of Peshawer division who gave him most of the seats. What will imran khan do? i participated in his one of abbotabad rally, he did promise hazara province.

PTI has won more seat then expected in Hazara, If Azam Khan Swati has been a little intelligent politically, PTI would has won seats in Mansehra District too.
But I agree that Ball is in PMLN court. if PTI + alliance +PMLN votes for HP its near 2/3 hence constitutional demand fulfilled. At center PMLN +PTI + Pti alliancees are sufficient too. So ball is in PMLN court and they cant make excuses now.

 

[Icewolf]

More need to split Balochistan in many provinces

 

[Spring Onion]

PTI has won more seat then expected in Hazara, If Azam Khan Swati has been a little intelligent politically, PTI would has won seats in Mansehra District too.
But I agree that Ball is in PMLN court. if PTI + alliance +PMLN votes for HP its near 2/3 hence constitutional demand fulfilled. At center PMLN +PTI + Pti alliancees are sufficient too. So ball is in PMLN court and they cant make excuses now.

PML N MPAs from hazara can vote irrespective of their political party affiliation as it would make sure their future .

Renaming the province was a shytty move have achieved NOTHING for us the people of KPK/.

 

[Leader]

Sir you are wrong hazara is not an ethnicity in hazara div, Hazara is geographical region comprising mainly Pakhtoons, Gujjars, kohistanis etc, though Hazara is majority of Pakhtoons(tribes of torghar, Pathan of Batagram, Swati of Mansehra, Tareen and Mishwani of Haripur, Jadoon of Abbottabad and Tanoli are all pathans) yet is has a distinct culture different from that of Pashtu speaking areas of Peshawar Mardan Charsedda etc, and has different language. it is geographically distinct and separated from Peshawar Mardan etc also.
Please don call this as a demand that is based on Ethinicity.

More provences is need of time and a democratic right.
best option is to go for a referendum in Hazara region for Hazara Provence. If ppl say yes then crea new provence.

I dont know how true your information is, but in hazara every other person you meet would tell you that he is not a pathan, and he wants a separate province.

as for referendum

 

[Shabaz Sharif]

There was chance of South Punjab suba but i dont know if its possible now after the way PPP lost the election without winning any seat.

PML N MPAs from hazara can vote irrespective of their political party affiliation as it would make sure their future .

Renaming the province was a shytty move have achieved NOTHING for us the people of KPK/.

It did archive ANP objective and that was to divide the province on ethnic lines, they could have named it Hazara-Pukhtunwa instead.

I dont know how true your information is, but in hazara every other person you meet would tell you that he is not a pathan, and he wants a separate province.

as for referendum

Yes majority are not pathans but things only got bad after nationalistic party ANP come to power.

 

[ghilzai]

The province they want to create and call hazara has territories that belong to people of chach attock, such as haripur, ghazi etc, these lands were stolen from the chachis, its only fair that these lands are returned to its rightful people and then there is no issue with creation of hazara province.

How long will the pushto speaking and non pushto speaking pukhtoons have to suffer before their rightful land is returned to them, to please voters should not be at the cost of puktoon nation.

 

[ghilzai]

@Pak-one as a fellow pukhtoon what do you think?.

 

[Marwat Khan Lodhi]

hazara province movement is joke, 3 three districts batagram, torghar and kohistan are against it. Instead of separate province, the three hindko speaking districts should be incorporated into punjab.