Low Graphics Site
 
 
 
 
 
 
|
|
|
|
February 19, 2002
|
Tuesday
|
Zilhaj 6, 1422
|
To send a letter to the Editor
Click here
Upgrading division to province
Our ‘Halwa’ economy
Pakistan and West Asia
Kashmir an explosive issue
Double standards
Honour killings
Police efficiency
Withholding tax
British or British-born
General’s party
Blasphemy law
Combating extremism
Retirement age
Camp X-Ray at Guantanamo Bay
Upgrading division to province
THIS refers to the news item headlined “NRB envisages 26 provinces, repeal of 13th amendment” (Feb 7).
Columnists and article writers have been writing for the last many years that our present federating units (only four) are too big, and as such unmanageable and not easily approachable by the poor majority.
Also, each division in the provinces, existing since independence is devoid of people’s representation and as such is purely a bureaucratic set-up headed by a civil servant with full administrative secretariat but providing little access to the common man (in due course, as per government policy, these are to vanish).
The present regime has at last felt the necessity (but not the “urgency” - my comprehension) of upgrading the division to the status of a province / autonomous state with a small assembly comprising members elected from the “forme
|