Overview
- Mohsin Naqvi told reporters on Thursday that a nationwide public vote is the best way to resolve the dispute over creating new provinces and that he would accept the people's decision.
- He said major steps on provincial reorganisation must win coalition agreement and that he and PPP leader Bilawal Bhutto Zardari are 'almost on the same page' on the need for a broader system reset.
- Speaking at the National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency, Naqvi said investigators uncovered an international education-related fraud involving about 5,000 Pakistanis and that 15 suspects were arrested in recent pornography-related operations.
- Naqvi warned the NCCIA is understaffed, citing only 61 personnel in Punjab, and said he will brief Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif next week on resource needs and plans to move the agency's complaint cell onto the Pak ID platform.
- Media reports of a plan to split Pakistan into up to 12 provinces remain unconfirmed, and any reorganisation would likely require a constitutional amendment, risk regional opposition—notably from the PPP over Sindh—and could heighten political bargaining over resources and governance.