Resolution passed by SA against creation of new province is unconstitutional: MQM-P

MQM-P Convener Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui on Sunday flayed PPP-led Sindh government for moving a resolution in the provincial assembly against the creation of any new province and termed it unconstitutional, reported 24NewsHD TV Channel. 

The Sindh Assembly on Saturday passed a resolution declaring Karachi an inseparable part of the province and opposing any move that suggested otherwise. 

MQM-P Convener Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui flanked by Farooq Sattar, Mustafa Kamal and Senator Faisal Subzwari addressing a press conference in Karachi said that yesterday a resolution against the Constitution of Pakistan was passed by one assembly of Pakistan. 

Maqbool Siddiqui said a province had carried itself as if it were a separate country.

MQM-P leader asked the public and the intelligentsiato tell PPP that whether any province could pass a resolution that went against the Constitution.

“This resolution challenged Pakistan, its Constitution, its law and its state, he remarked, noting that it was being done by the party that had been in power in the province for the past 17 years. Siddiqui contended that Article 239 of the 1973 Constitution provided the procedure for establishing new provinces.

He said this resolution is not against any demand of ours but against Pakistan’s Constitution, its state, presence and the PPP leader Bhutto.

The MQM-P leader also referred to Articles 246 and 248 of the Constitution, which he said gave presidential powers for extraordinary circumstances. He recalled that the MQM-P had demanded the empowerment of local governments even at the time of the 26th Amendment, when the Pakistani state, government and democracy were in dire need of us.