Ethnic Fault Lines and the Case for The Creation of New Provinces in Pakistan: An Appraisal

This article seeks to analyze the discourse around creation of new provinces in Pakistan. The demand for carving out federating units is a popular and long-standing proposal some areas country with long history ethnic sub-nationalism fuelled by real imagined sense political alienation economic deprivation. has been raised from time based on distribution national resources, grounds, sometimes basis socio-economic backwardness relevant areas. 'Saraiki Province', 'Bahawalpur 'Hazara Province are major cases. case study will focus different factors, including, most importantly, constitutional setup role parties Pakistan making provinces. Following three basic questions concerns rigorous academic endeavour taken up paper. First, what demands Pakistan? Second, main hurdles urged re-demarcation state Third, stance various Parties about