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ISSUE OF SARAIKISTAN POST 18TH AMENDMENT

11 Pages : 163-171

http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2017(II-I).11      10.31703/gssr.2017(II-I).11      Published : Jun 1

Issue of SaraikiStan: Post 18th Amendment

    The paper primarily focuses on salient dynamics voiced for division of Punjab and establishment of Saraiki Province and is aiming to aware coming parliamentarians regarding the sensitive issue so that they can make themselves capable to develop skill to resolve such generic issues. The non-justifiable allocation and distribution of resources by the federal government not only created hatred between East and West Pakistan in 1971 but later on among four provinces of Pakistan as well. For the last more than seventy years, the inspirations of ethnicity and regionalism evoked by Pukhtoons, Baluchis, Muhajirs and Saraikis made the process of national integration complex and so politicized different socio-economic and issues concerning different people of different regions which sometimes led to civil war situations in Pakistan. Though state's constitution provided equal rights and opportunities to all nationalities in all spheres of life. However the feeling of provincialism or regionalism awakens in the minds when the people of a particular area are continuously neglected by the ruling class and so they are politically educated as backward and discriminated people by their local leaders. In this way, these leaders keep political hold over the specified area and its people. Regional disparities in terms of revenue and consumptions have awakened the perception of ignorance and discrimination and this is the reason that PML (N) faced severe hurdles and the repatriation of its own parliamentarians as the Saraiki community has been continuously neglected by the Punjabi dominated Political Party in the National legislature.

    Ethno-Nationalism, Identity Crisis, Deprivations, Regionalism, Saraiki Nationalist Movement, Eighteenth Amendment
    (1) Sana Ullah
    Demonstrator & PhD Scholar, Department of Political Science, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Pakistan
    (2) Ijaz Khalid
    Demonstrator & PhD Scholar, Department of Political Science, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Pakistan
    (3) Shazia Hassan
    Assistant Professor, LMS Department, Faculty of Contemporary Studies, National Defence University, Islamabad, Pakistan
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    CHICAGO : Ullah, Sana, Ijaz Khalid, and Shazia Hassan. 2017. "Issue of SaraikiStan: Post 18th Amendment." Global Social Sciences Review, II (I): 163-171 doi: 10.31703/gssr.2017(II-I).11
    HARVARD : ULLAH, S., KHALID, I. & HASSAN, S. 2017. Issue of SaraikiStan: Post 18th Amendment. Global Social Sciences Review, II, 163-171.
    MHRA : Ullah, Sana, Ijaz Khalid, and Shazia Hassan. 2017. "Issue of SaraikiStan: Post 18th Amendment." Global Social Sciences Review, II: 163-171
    MLA : Ullah, Sana, Ijaz Khalid, and Shazia Hassan. "Issue of SaraikiStan: Post 18th Amendment." Global Social Sciences Review, II.I (2017): 163-171 Print.
    OXFORD : Ullah, Sana, Khalid, Ijaz, and Hassan, Shazia (2017), "Issue of SaraikiStan: Post 18th Amendment", Global Social Sciences Review, II (I), 163-171