South Punjab (Punjabi: دکھݨی پنجاب, romanized: Dakhṇī Panjāb; Urdu: جنوبی پنجاب, romanized: Junūbī Panjāb),[1][2] also proposed as Bahawalpur-South Punjab,[3] are the names for the proposals to create a new province in Pakistan, out of the southern regions of Punjab.[4] The region comprises the Bahawalpur, Multan and Dera Ghazi Khan divisions.[5][6][7] The proposed province would form about 52 percent of the total area and almost 40 percent of the population of the current Punjab province.[8][9]
The concerns are genuine because of the fact that the proposed province of South Punjab will comprise the divisions of Bahawalpur, Multan and Dera Ghazi Khan as well as some adjoining areas of the current Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
Second, the majority of people of D.I. Khan and Tank districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa are Seraiki-speaking. They are asking to be part of a Seraiki province and have formed the Seraiki Suba Mahaz to launch a campaign for the inclusion of their districts in the new province.