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Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi on Thursday urged all political parties to “settle” various national-level issues, including the question of creating new provinces.
Addressing the Pakistan Economic Summit 2026 being held in Islamabad, Naqvi said there was “only one solution” to improving the country’s overall condition: “You will have to take [the matter of] administrative units, provinces or whatever you may call it, to the public.”
The interior minister argued: “All political parties should sit together in a single room, whether for a day, a month or a year. They will have to settle every issue of their country, including new units and provinces.”
“Unless they do so, unless they sit together and change this, this country will remain in the same condition, regardless of how many seminars and functions you hold.”
