MQM Pakistan senior central leader Dr Farooq Sattar has said new provinces in Pakistan are necessary as the population grows, arguing that the country’s existing provincial setup is not enough to meet citizens’ needs.
Addressing a General Workers meeting, Sattar linked demographic pressure to governance. He said that when people’s basic problems remain unsolved, deprivation increases. On that basis, he pressed for fresh provincial arrangements rather than relying only on the present structure.
What Sattar said about the four provinces
Sattar described the current four provinces as machinery that keeps a monopoly of a few families in place. He did not name those families in the remarks summarised here, but framed the four-province map as a barrier to wider political and administrative inclusion.
He said Pakistan now needs participatory, inclusive democracy. In the same remarks, he argued that new administrative units are necessary in all four provinces—an extension of his call for new provinces in Pakistan beyond a single region.
Focus on Sindh and administrative division
The MQM Pakistan leader also said Sindh needs administrative division. That point sits alongside his broader demand for new units nationwide: he presented Sindh as a province where redrawing administrative boundaries is especially required, without spelling out how many units or where their borders would fall.
What happens next
Sattar’s comments set out a political demand—new provinces and new administrative units tied to population growth and service delivery—but they do not announce a government decision, a draft map, or a timetable. Any formal creation of provinces would still require constitutional and political processes beyond a party speech.
For now, the record from the General Workers meeting is clear on his position: population growth, he said, makes new provinces necessary; the four existing provinces should gain new administrative units; Sindh should see administrative division; and politics should move toward participatory, inclusive democracy so basic problems do not deepen deprivation.
Aasan alfaaz mein
Farooq Sattar ne kaha hai ke abadi barhne ke sath naye sube zaroori hain. Unhon ne MQM Pakistan ke General Workers ijlas mein yeh baat ki. Unka kehna hai ke logon ke bunyadi masail na hal hon to mehroomi barhti hai. Woh chaaron subon mein naye intizami units aur Sindh mein intizami taqseem chahte hain.
