mrrehan
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Well, Vergennes comparing France with Pakistan is like apples and oranges. The two have entirely differant historical and ethno-social trajectories. Pakistan is a federation and is not a generic state. What many of the members here do not appreciate is Pakistan came after and the generic provinces that make it came before. Pakistan is the child of the provinces.
In 1940s British Indian Empire had lots of administrative units. Each was like a brick that had been acquired by Britain eitheir through military conquest or been brought under indirect British suzerainty. In the latter these states accepted overlorship of Britain but retained internal rule. The best analogy I can give you is imagine a powerful external force landed on the Spanish Costa Del Sol (say Chinese) in 1600s and then after subduing the Spanish and establishing capital in Madrid of their "Chinese European Empire" spread north and east. Over the next 200 years they subjugated France, Germany, Belguim, Itay, Poland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Latvia, Serbia, Greece, Turkey, Azerbaijhan, Syria, Lebanon. This then becomes known as the "Chinese European Empire".
Each one of these countries exists as a province of the empire being ran by Chinese officials from Madrid. Then as independance approaches the Muslim's within the empire insist that when they Chinese leave they don't want to be part of a new European Republic because and insist on having their own state. A vote is held and Turkey, Syria, Azerbaijhain, Lebanon (being Muslim dominant) opt out to go their own way and set up their own federation to be called 'Istania'.
As the Chinese European Empire is dissolved two new states take shape. The Union Of Europe Republic and the Istania Islamic Republic. The problem that surfaces soon is large numbers of Bosnian, Alabanian Muslim's are left inside the European Republic - some of them migrate to Istania and settle in Beirut where they become the dominant group in numbers and displacing the local Arabs in that city. Istania choses Ankara to be the new capital.
Istania would have four provinces - Turkey, Azerbaijan, Syria and Lebanon. As each of them had elected to join the fedration it would be very hard for the federation to de-establish what had set it up - the provinces. In addition there would be problems of ethnic friction. For example Beirut might want to be set up as another province but the Lebanones Arabs would oppose that. From their perspective they (Arabs) had voted to join Istania and even taken in Bosnian/Albanian Muslim migrants but they did not join Istania to lose their Beirut to the migrants from Bosnia in Europe. I hope by contexulaizing it you can understand the situation. There is no ethnic group 'Pakistan' but is made up of four ethnic based provinces with some migrants from India.
This is a map of British Indian Empire with the myriad of province/ethnic groups/princely states all under the suzureinty of Britain in 1909. You can see the outlay of Pakistan. The four provinces on the left side (North West) opted to federate as Pakistan in 1947 as they were Muslim dominant. Each had one dominant ethnic group, with it's own language and culture like Turkey, Syria, Lebanon and Azerbaijan with common Muslim heritage. The provinces on the map are Balochistan, Sindh, Punjab and North West Frontier Province.
How it would shape up.
British Indian Empire today
and the British era provinces today that make Pakistan. If you refer to the 1909 British Indian Empire you will see their outliers..
In fact what you have is by European standards four differant countries with one (Sindh) have huge number of migrants from India in Karachi. Slicing of Karachi from Sindh would be taken as slicing Marseille from France because of it's Arab migrants. So the whole subject is very politically sensitive and roots of which go back into history.
I think the only possible thing might be to ask Punjab to dived itself into North, West and South as it is the biggest province and least liable to cause political ramifications.
Army have now issues with this, lay men Pakistanis cant have any issues with it as it is there for facilitate them basically. As far as politician and political parties concern they have all sort of issues because this "status quo"is facilitation them and them only. Apart from all this intentional complexities for political and personal gain.
I agree it should be strictly on the administrative purposes only. There is a chain of managing financial and administrative mechanisms takes place after new provinces, census will also be easy task to manage, then you can easily allocate electoral constituencies as well. The only thing needed is a honesty and honesty only.