Overview
- The Sindh Assembly extended a heated debate into a third day and then unanimously passed a resolution Thursday rejecting any proposal to alter the province’s territorial limits.
- The resolution, moved by PPP leader Nisar Ahmed Khuhro, invoked Article 239(4) of the Constitution to stress that the provincial assembly must consent to any change in boundaries.
- MQM-P lawmakers said their calls were for additional administrative units to improve governance in Karachi and elsewhere and denied they sought to break up Sindh.
- Sindh nationalist parties meeting in Hyderabad rejected the proposals as a threat to provincial integrity and announced plans for street protests beginning September 20.
- The dispute draws on old grievances over water, local-government reform and episodes such as One Unit and the 2012 Sindh Local Government Act, raising the risk of sustained political polarization and pressure for concrete devolution or anti-corruption measures.