By Ahsan Mughal
KARACHI: The Mohajir Qaumi Movement-Haqiqi (MQM-H) has called for the creation of a separate Southern Sindh province, arguing that the region’s growing administrative failures and economic hardships make the move essential rather than optional.
Speaking at a meeting with a delegation of MQM-H elders from the district central areas at the residence of party leader Sadiq Idris, he said the demand was rooted in a need for justice, not division. “Southern Sindh is not about separation; it is about fairness,” Idris told the gathering.
He highlighted that the existing provincial structure had failed to meet the needs of urban Sindh, leaving cities such as Karachi, Hyderabad, Sukkur, and Mirpurkhas—key economic hubs—without adequate basic services, security, employment, education, or health facilities. Broken infrastructure, water and electricity shortages, mounting waste, rising unemployment, and increasing street crime were cited as clear evidence of this neglect.
Idris criticized the quota system, unequal distribution of resources, and centralized decision-making, which he said had left the Muhajir population marginalized. “Decades of tax contributions have not translated into local control over our own resources, while local governments have effectively been paralyzed,” he said. He argued that rural and urban Sindh faced fundamentally different challenges, which could no longer be addressed under a single administrative framework. Creating a separate Southern Sindh province, he said, would grant urban areas administrative autonomy and help restore public confidence.
