Closing the dialogue, Federal Minister for Interior Syed Mohsin Raza Naqvi said that if the existing system is not functioning, all stakeholders should come together to fix it — and that both new administrative units and new provinces remain possible outcomes, provided change happens constitutionally, democratically and by consensus rather than by unilateral decision. Invoking the Quaid-e-Azam’s 1948 warning that “provincialism is the greatest of all curses,” he argued the debate should not be framed along ethnic or biradari lines but around a straightforward set of questions for Parliament to settle: how many provinces or units, what their boundaries should be, and where their funding would come from.
He summarised his position in four principles: government should be closer to the public; government should be answerable; there must be unified political will; and any change must occur within the Constitution.
