BALOCHISTAN: Former Chief Minister of Balochistan, Sardar Sanaullah Zehri has resigned from Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) accusing Nawaz Sharif of “betraying all those who stood by him in testing times”.
Nawab Zehri while announcing his resignation from the PML-N’s Central Executive Committee said, “From today, Nawaz Sharif is our political opponent.
During the event, he flanked by another former PML-N stalwart Abdul Qadir Baloch, who left the party recently said, “I will chalk out the future course of action after consulting my friends and aides.”
The former Chief Minister of Balochistan challenged the PML-N to secure even a single seat from the province without their support.
Zehri, is the second PML-N leader to have resigned from the party. Last week Lt Gen (retd) Abdul Qadir Baloch quitted the party in protest against Nawaz Sharif’s anti-military narrative”, though the party sought to give it a different color.
Former CM recalled that he and Qadir Baloch were awarded PML-N tickets from Balochistan when nobody was ready to contest elections on their party symbol in 2018.
While terming Nawaz a friend of Modi he said, “We will now show him as to who owns Balochistan, either it is the Baloch people or him,” Zehri added.
He announced his resignation from the Central Executive Committee of Nawaz Sharif and openly challenged him at every platform.
Disgruntled Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Lt-Gen (retd) Abdul Qadir Baloch has formally announced stepping down from the party post, citing the anti-military narrative of party supremo Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam.
On this occasion, Baloch, who was president of PML-N’s Balochistan chapter, said he had earned all the respect and honor while serving in the armed forces of the country.
“I am what I am today only because of the army. We at the military academy are taught to do or die for the country… how I can be part of a group that blurts out venom against its own armed forces? If I have to stand with someone, I will stand with my chief,” he added.
