LAHORE – Keeping up the promise of the South Punjab province on priority,PTI lawmaker in Punjab Assembly has submitted a resolution seeking theHouse recommend that the federal government initiate the process for thecreation of a Southern Punjab province.

“This House strongly recommends to the federal government to initiate theprocess of creation of Southern Punjab province immediately,” reads theresolution submitted by MPA Mohammad Mohsin Leghari.

The PTI had included the formation of a new province in south Punjab totheir election manifesto in May this year while absorbing a political partycalling itself the Junoobi Punjab Suba Mahaz (JPSM; the South PunjabProvince Front).

The JPSM mainly comprised estranged leaders of the PML-N who had formed theplatform for the single-point agenda of carving a new province from thesouthern parts of Punjab.

Under the PTI-JPSM deal, the PTI was to set in motion the procedures tocreate a new province in south Punjab within 100 days if it formed thegovernment.