Pakistan, Sept. 4 -- The Sindh Assembly on Thursday unanimously passed a resolution rejecting any proposal to divide the province or alter its territorial limits, as opposition lawmakers staged a walkout in protest.

The resolution was moved by senior Pakistan Peoples Party leader Nisar Ahmed Khuhro and approved unanimously by the members present in the house.

The resolution came amid a renewed public debate over the creation of new provinces and administrative units in Pakistan, including proposals that could alter the existing territorial limits of Sindh.

Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah delivered a forceful defence of Sindh's geographical, constitutional and political unity in the Sindh Assembly, declaring that any proposal a...