While politicians argue over whether Pakistan needs entirely new provinces, actual administrative reforms have quietly been rolling out in Punjab and Balochistan this year. New districts, redrawn boundaries and thousands of reassigned government employees show that some of this restructuring isn’t a future proposal. It’s already underway. Background Pakistan’s provincial governments have broad authority over local administration, and both Punjab and Balochistan used that authority in mid-2026 to reorganise how their bureaucracies function. At the same time, federal ministers have started talking publicly about a bigger structural “reset,” adding political…
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