QUETTA – The Balochistan government crisis worsens as two more ministersand advisor resign from their posts. Sources said provincial manpower andlabour minister, Rahat Jamali, who hails from the ruling Pakistan MuslimLeague-Nawaz (PML-N), has resigned.
Similarly, the chief minister’s adviser on excise and taxation, Abdul MajidAbro, has also sent his resignation to the governor.
He too hails from the PML-N and was appointed anadviser on January 3, 2018.[image: an image]
A total of five PML-N members of the provincial cabinet have resigned sofar, plunging the provincial government into a severe crisis.
Moreover, Chief Minister Balochistan Sanaullah Zehri faces a no-confidencemotion in the provincial assembly.
Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Thursday requested the JamiatUlema-e-Islam-F (JUI-F) leader Maulana Fazlur Rehman to take back hissupport from the no-confidence motion.
Sources said the premier met the JUI-F leader at his Islamabad residencealong with Federal SAFRON Minister Abdul Qadir Baloch.
The JUI-F leader presented his conditions, which includethe making of theincumbent political setup in Balochistan, the future provincial interimgovernment,and assurances on the issue of FATA’s merger with KhyberPakhtunkhwa province.