We lack two-thirds majority for making South Punjab a province: FM Shah Mahmood Qureshi 

Multan: Minister for Foreign Affairs Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Saturday has said that they do not have the two thirds majority to bring a constitutional amendment for making South Punjab a province.

Talking to the media, Shah Mahmood Qureshi said that all political parties have rejected the local bodies system of Sindh. “Sindh government wants to bring local bodies system without any powers.”

He said that we made the old demand of South Punjab province which was our election manifesto. We do not have two-thirds majority. That is why, we are unable to make a province. We made secretariat in South Punjab and we are spending a budget of South Punjab in this region,” he added.

Qureshi said that he has penned a letter to Shehbaz Sharif and Bilawal Bhutto on the matter as government wants to fulfill its promise but establishment of new province requires constitutional amendment which requires support from opposition.

He further said that government is even willing to give opposition the credit for the constitutional amendment if it wants.

The minister said that like Yousaf Raza Gillani, he also does not want a secretariat here but a province. “He is ready to honestly go along with the PPP for the creation of a province. That is why, I wrote a letter to Bilawal Bhutto Zardari for his support in the establishment of Sindh,” he concluded.