CONSIDERING the advance state of urban decay that affects Karachi, voices are often raised calling for the megacity, and other urban parts of Sindh, to be formed into a separate province. The MQM has been at the forefront of this campaign, and it again raised the issue at a recent seminar. The Bahadurabad faction’s head Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui, who is also a federal minister, said that a “a new urban province” in Sindh had become “an unavoidable necessity”. He cited the city’s large population and economic importance as reasons for a new administrative set-up. There can be little argument........

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