{"id":4388,"date":"2026-11-13T23:04:25","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T18:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4388"},"modified":"2026-11-13T23:04:25","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T18:04:25","slug":"president-house-denies-zardari-naqvi-discussed-new-provinces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4388","title":{"rendered":"President House denies Zardari, Naqvi discussed new provinces"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The President House on Friday rejected media reports that President Asif Ali Zardari and Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi discussed the creation of new provinces during their meeting in Nawabshah a day earlier.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the President House said the reports suggesting that provincial matters were discussed during the meeting were incorrect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMatters concerning national security and the regional situation were discussed during the meeting. However, no discussion took place on matters related to provinces,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>The clarification came after several media reports claimed that the president and the interior minister had discussed the possibility of creating new provinces during their meeting at Zardari House in Nawabshah on Thursday.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  w-full sm:w-full  media--center  media--embed  media--uneven media--tweet\" data-original-src=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PresOfPakistan\/status\/2121260528203112707?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2121260528203112707%7Ctwgr%5E2cf0630882eaeedfe139dbf7380152c1c2b34bf4%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dawn.com%2Fnews%2F2044319\">\n<div class=\"media__item  media__item--twitter  \"><span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PresOfPakistan\/status\/2121260528203112707?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2121260528203112707%7Ctwgr%5E2cf0630882eaeedfe139dbf7380152c1c2b34bf4%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dawn.com%2Fnews%2F2044319\"><\/a>\n    <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Naqvi had travelled to Nawabshah on a special aircraft for the meeting, which reportedly lasted nearly an hour. No official statement was issued immediately after the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The reports emerged a day after Naqvi proposed holding a referendum on the creation of new provinces, saying the government should accept the public\u2019s decision on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters during a visit to the National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA), the interior minister said the public should decide whether new provinces should be established.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone talks about democracy, so there should be a referendum on the issue of provinces. Whatever the public decides will be accepted with an open heart,\u201d he had said.<\/p>\n<p>Naqvi also cited surveys suggesting public support for the creation of new provinces and said he and Pakistan Peoples Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari shared the same position on the issue.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The President House on Friday rejected media reports that President Asif Ali Zardari and Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi discussed the creation of new provinces during their meeting in Nawabshah a day earlier. In a statement, the President House said the reports suggesting that provincial matters were discussed during the meeting were incorrect. \u201cMatters concerning national security and the regional situation were discussed during the meeting. However, no discussion took place on matters related to provinces,\u201d the statement said. The clarification came after several media reports claimed that the president and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}