Pakistan Faces Backlash Over Proposed Karachi Province Division

Explained: Why is everyone so mad about Karachi province?

Talk of Pakistan’s territorial reconfiguration is back in circulation again with mention of the division of Sindh producing the most bile. It was all started by the interior minister who told businessmen in Islamabad last month that he mourned the collapse of Pakistan’s “outdated governance system”. Urgent reforms were needed, he argued, if Pakistan wanted to avoid blowback from “cockroaches” (Gen-Z agitating in India). Our salvation lay in the decentralization of governance which could be ac...

By [email protected] (Dr Asma Faiz)