Islamabad: A Parliamentary Commission on New Provinces in Pakistan has decided that new province in Punjab will be named as Bahawalpur South Punjab province, report says.
The report says that the commission’s report has been finalised and it will presented in the National Assembly’s session on Monday.
The commission has decided that Bahawalpur and Bhakhar would also be included in the new province.
Farhatullah Babar, the member of the commission, said that the nation would hear good news soon.
The controversial 14-member parliamentary commission was constituted in August of last year by the speaker of the National Assembly and comprises Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Senators Farhatullah Babar and Syeda Sughra Imam, Awami National Party (ANP) Senator Haji Mohammad Adeel, Pakistan Muslim League-Q (PML-Q) Senator Kamil Ali Agha and Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) Senator Malik Muhammad Rafique Rajwana, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-F (JUI-F) Senator Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haidri, PPP MNAs Arif Aziz Sheikh, Jamshed Ahmed Dasti, Syed Ali Musa Gilani, PML-N MNAs Tehmina Daultana and Chaudhry Saud Majeed, as well as Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s (MQM) Dr Farooq Sattar.
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