QUETTA – Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has yet to get another blow asa new Muslim League is in offing comprising of dissents of PMLN.Balochistan Home Minister Sarfraz Bugti has confirmed that a new politicalparty comprising dissidents of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N)provincial lawmakers and tribal chieftains was in the offing, a formalannouncement regarding which would be made soon.
Talking to newsmen on Friday, the minister declared that Balochistan ChiefMinister Abdul Quddus Bizenjo would announce further details regarding thenew political force within one or two days.
Sarfaraz Bugti informed that the manifesto of the party had been finalizedclaiming that the new party would be progressives and different from othertraditional political parties of the province.
According to highly-placed sources, United Muslim League would emerge asthe new political party in Balochistan under the leadership of former CMand Balochistan governor Nawab Zulfiqar Ali Magsi.
The sources also predict that dissenters and MPAs of National Party andPkMAP would join the United Muslim League while the party will contest nextgeneral elections in alliance with the Pakistan Peoples Party and theJamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl, Express Tribune reported.
It is noteworthy that Pakistan’s land-wise biggest province Balochistanelected its new chief minister in January, this year, surprising politicalcommentators, who were baffled at the fall of, once powerful, SanaullahZehri.
Moreover, the election of Sadiq Sanjrani as Senate chairman, who traces hisorigin to Balochistan, amazed the political observers, as Sanjranicontested as an independent candidate, brushing aside Raja Zafar ul Haq ofPakistan Muslim League Nawaz.