{"id":23257,"date":"2026-08-07T12:50:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T07:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=23257"},"modified":"2026-08-07T12:50:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T07:50:43","slug":"sindh-cannot-be-divided-into-more-provinces-says-murad-ali-shah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=23257","title":{"rendered":"Sindh cannot be divided into more provinces, says Murad Ali Shah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah has said that the province cannot be divided into additional administrative units, citing several resolutions passed by the Sindh Assembly against such proposals.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the media after attending the Mining Technical Conference 2026 in Karachi, he said the Constitution of Pakistan clearly outlines the procedure for creating new provinces, which requires the approval of a two-thirds majority in the relevant provincial assembly.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to a question regarding recent remarks by Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi, the chief minister said the Sindh Assembly had repeatedly adopted resolutions opposing the division of the province.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the matter could only be reconsidered if the assembly&#8217;s position changed in the future, although he said no such development appeared likely at present.<\/p>\n<p>Murad Ali Shah also stated that the Pakistan Peoples Party remained committed to safeguarding the interests of the province and would continue to oppose any attempt to divide Sindh.<\/p>\n<p>The federal government has not yet issued an official response to his remarks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah has said that the province cannot be divided into additional administrative units, citing several resolutions passed by the Sindh Assembly against such proposals. Speaking to the media after attending the Mining Technical Conference 2026 in Karachi, he said the Constitution of Pakistan clearly outlines the procedure for creating new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23258,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowgLK2DA:productID":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,46,36],"tags":[674,474,13293,62,4831,828,179,323],"class_list":["post-23257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-latest","category-pakistan","tag-mohsin-naqvi","tag-murad-ali-shah","tag-new-provinces","tag-pakistan","tag-pakistan-peoples-party","tag-politics","tag-sindh","tag-sindh-assembly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23259,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23257\/revisions\/23259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}