MANSEHRA: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz is planning to move a joint resolution along with the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf in the provincial assembly for the creation of Hazara province.

`Our party is in contact with Chief Minister Pervez Khattak to move a joint resolution for creation of Hazara province.

`If both the parties agree, the resolution would be tabled before April 12, the anniversary of Abbottabad tragedy,` PML-N MPA Salah Mohammad Khan told journalists here on Monday.

He claimed that so far 34 lawmakers including all 17 MPAs of PML-N signed the resolution. `Almost all MPAs from Hazara, irrespective of their political affiliation, have signed the resolution,` he added.

Mr Khan said that parliamentary leader of his party Sardar Mehtab Khan was in contact with the chief minister for tabling joint resolution in the provincial assembly.

To a query, the MPA said that once the resolution was passed by the provincial assembly then it would be sent to the federal government for further action.

`You are well aware of the fact that creation of more federating units in the country is jurisdiction of Senate and National Assembly. The issue of Hazara province would al-so be taken there. Hazara will become another province of the country if Constitution is amended,` he said.

The PML-N lawmaker said that although he personally supported creation of more federating units on administration basis yet he was bound to follow his party`s decision in that regard in letter and spirit.

He said that PML-N was striving to launch mega development projects in the district and time was not far when work on Pak-China motorway would start.

Meanwhile, scores of people on Monday took to streets against shifting of a basic health unit from Pares to Jurad area in Kaghan valley.

Carrying banners and placards inscribed with slogans against shifting of the health unit, the enraged protesters demanded of the authorities to shun the plan.

`We can`t understand the logic behind shifting the only heath centre from the area.

The government claims that it is providing health services people but at the same time it is depriving a big population of health services,` said Abdul Sattar while addressing the protesters.

Imtiaz Shah, Fida Hussain Shah and Mohammad Sadiq also spoke on the occasion.

Mr Sattar said that people of the area would block Mansehra-Naran-Jalkhd Road for indefinite period if government did not shun the plan of shifting the health centre.