Former Balochistan chief minister Sardar Sanaullah Zehri has announced that he would quit the Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N), and threw a challenge to the party to win even a single seat from the province without his support.
“I challenge the PML-N to secure the win even a single seat from Balochistan now,” he said during an event where Abdul Qadir Baloch, another PML-N stalwart who left the party recently, was present.
Zehri recalled that he and Baloch were awarded PML-N tickets from Balochistan when nobody was ready to contest polls on their party symbol in 2018.
He lamented the way Sharif decided from London as to who would sit at the podium during a recent Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) rally in Quetta.
“The King [Nawaz Sharif] is making decisions as to who will sit on the stage,” he mocked, while terming the PML-N supremo as an absconder who had fled the country and took shelter in London to launch attacks against the country.
“We will now show him as to who owns Balochistan, whether it is the Baloch people, or him,” the former chief minister said.
“I announce my resignation from the Central Executive Committee of Nawaz Sharif, and will now openly challenge him at every platform,” he said.
Zehri further said that he would announce his future political plans after consultation with associates.
It is pertinent to mention here that PML-N Balochistan chief Abdul Qadir Baloch had on November 1 announced his intention to part ways with the party, citing Sharif’s rhetoric against the Pakistan Army from the platform of the PDM.