Will South Punjab be another Swat? And Bahawalpur’s provincial status

The ex-information minister under the previous PMLQ government, Muhammad Ali Durrani, has proposed in parliament that South Punjab or the “Seraiki” region of Punjab should be made into a separate province in order to save it from decades of neglect. In another event the interior minister of Pakistan, Rehman Malik, has told the Financial Times that “we suspect something similar to Swat may arise in South Punjab”. He says he has been sharing “information” with the Punjab government because jihadi militias like Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) and Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) hail from South Punjab and “perhaps all those terrorists who fled from Waziristan or Swat might have taken refuge in South Punjab”.

Being birth place and still strong ties with that part of Pakistan - Few of the things regarding this issue I would like to put into context:
Let me tell everybody one good news first – there is very remote possibility that South Punjab will be next Swat. The reason, majority of population of that region is Bralvi Sunni. At this moment trouble makers are Deubandi and Wahabis. Although Deubandis are gaining more power by force and recently they opened more madarasas then any other sect in the region and it is alarming but situation is far from Swat. In Bahawalpur the biggest evil group is Jaish-e-Mohammad and I have the impression that still that group is cooperating with ISI, but there is possibility it could turn any side. I remember teasing my family couple of years back on this issue that if you guys never dealt with Maluvi Masood Azhar, he would be your next CoreCommander…
Recently this issue is raised by Mohammad Ali Durani (infamous for always acting on the desire of establishment). A private draft bill he moved in Senate is seeking to amend the Constitution to facilitate the process of creating new provinces with a simple majority of the parliament. In his press conference Durrani said there is a strong sense of deprivation amongst the people of under-developed areas, especially in Southern Punjab. The only solution to these problems is the creation of smaller, more governable units, he added, in the first phase, Bahawalpur's provincial status should be restored, and that should be followed by the formation of a new province that includes the Multan and Dera Ghazi Khan divisions,”. He suggested forming a total of 16 new provinces.
My view on this issue:
Regarding Bahawalpur province this is historic fact that before the establishment of “One Unit” Bahawalpur had provincial status and it was promised by the government of Pakistan that it will reinstate, if One Unit will overturn. But when One Unit was tipped-over by General Yahya Khan he merged the province of Bahawalpur into Punjab. There were strong protests throughout the former State of Bahawalpur but the movement for the restoration of province of Bahawalpur was crushed by Gen. Yahya’s military government. I was seven/eight years old on that time but still the memory of that movement is fresh in my mind, one day police opened the fire on peaceful procession and killed four to five protestors. My father was among injured. In general elections of 1970 political alliance for restoration of Bahawalpur province got 85% votes, majority of feudals who oppose to the restoration of province (including Makhdomzada Hasan Mahmood) loss the election. The MNA from Bahawalpur was among two or three who never signed 1973 constitution, because the Bahawalpur province was not restored in 1973 constitution.
I remember when Aashiq Buzdar wrote his famous poem “Aashan Qaidi takhat Lahore da” and the book was banned and poet went into Jail (during Zia rule) – everybody felt that was his/her voice. Very few people will deny the fact that Bahawalpur and D.J. khan are most deprived regions in the Punjab. But when you talked to any political leaders from Central Punjab they will say “it is because of the feudal lords of that area” they will not looked into the figures of the budget of Punjab that has very little development funds allocated for that areas compare to the central Punjab and even 50% of allocated development funds not released on time. Another brutal reality of that region is – you can see more development in the towns where Punjabi settlers are in majority compare to Saraiki areas.
To avoid the clashes between linguistic groups in that region, personally I am not in favor of the creation of more provinces on linguistic bases but creation of new provinces on administrative bases is good idea.