PPP open to new provinces elsewhere but rules out Sindh's division
Speaking to reporters in Thatta after an urs at Makli, the chief minister said Sindh's people had rejected the idea through their elected representatives.
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah said on Wednesday that the Pakistan Peoples Party has no objection to the creation of new provinces elsewhere in the country if the people of those areas want them, but that Sindh will not be divided.
He spoke to reporters in Thatta after attending the urs of Pir Syed Ghulam Jilani Shah Jilani at Makli on Wednesday evening, Dawn reported.
The division of Sindh, he said, is "neither legally nor politically acceptable", because the people of the province have rejected the idea through their elected representatives.
Dawn reported that he put the refusal in both legal and political terms and tied it to the province's elected representatives.
Dunya News reported his remarks as a statement that Sindh cannot be divided without the consent of its people. The News International carried the same position under the headline "No division of Sindh, but no objection elsewhere", leading with the exception carved out for Sindh.
Murad Ali Shah's party heads the provincial government in Sindh. His remarks set the party's position on both questions at once: new provinces in other parts of Pakistan are, in his account, a matter for the people who live there, while Sindh's boundaries are not open to change.
How the reports differ
Dawn carried the fullest account, naming Makli in Thatta as the venue and quoting Murad Ali Shah calling Sindh's division "neither legally nor politically acceptable" because the province's people had rejected it through their elected representatives. Dunya News framed the same remarks as Sindh not being divisible without the consent of its people. The News International led with the exception, headlining that there would be no division of Sindh but no objection elsewhere, putting Sindh first and the concession to other areas second. None of the three reports differed on a figure, a time or a named opponent.
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