• KP CM backs Sindh’s stance, says will not support new units without Imran’s nod• Gohar says decision without consensus to weaken federation• Senate opposition leader suggests collective stand against move
KARACHI: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi on Monday said the PTI would not back any move to create new provinces without the explicit approval of party founder Imran Khan, while PTI interim chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan cautioned the federal government against “hasty decisions” that could weaken the federation.
Addressing a ceremony organised by the Sindh High Court Bar Association in Karachi, the KP chief minister said his party stood with the people of Sindh on the issue of provinces. He criticised the constitutional amendments, saying that out of 27 amendments so far made in the Constitution, people only benefited from the 18th and 25th amendments while other changes were allegedly aimed at giving exemption to those in power from accountability.
PTI Secretary General Salman Akram Raja claimed that changes to the country’s constitutional framework were being planned to introduce the 28th Constitutional Amendment that would alter the constitutional requirement of a two-thirds majority in a provincial assembly for the creation of provinces. “We opposed the 26th and 27th amendments and will oppose the 28th Amendment as well,” he maintained.
