QUETTA: Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) is considering to implement 2013 confidential deal under which Chief Minister of Balochistan Abdul Malik Baloch has to step down halfway through five-year tenure to allow PML-N nominee to head the provincial government.
As per the deal signed by the three provincial coalition partners – PML-N, National Party (NP) and Pashtoonkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) – NP’s Dr Abdul Malik is to be replaced by Sardar Sanaullah Zehri of the PML-N halfway through his tenure.
However, government of Balochistan has managed to impress PML-N central leadership with their performance, especially in maintaining law and order in the troubled federal government takes decision.
When asked, the chief minister’s spokesperson Jan Buledi said the Murree pact was a political agreement among three parties. “It depends on how the PML-N wants to implement it. We will accept whatever they decide,” he said.
Usman Kakar, PkMAP’s provincial president and a senator, seconds Buledi. “We are committed to the Murree agreement,” he said. “The coalition government’s policy will remain the same even if the chief minister is replaced.”
Zamaruk Khan Achakzai, the Awami National Party’s (ANP) parliamentary leader in the Balochistan Assembly, believes the Murree pact was an agreement necessary for a coalition government and should be implemented.
The PML-N Balochistan spokesman, Alauddin Kakar, said he did not see any reason why the Murree agreement could not be implemented. “The next chief minister will be Nawab Sanaullah Zehri and it is his right,” he asserted.
He believes the PML-N sacrificed its own government following the decision of the central leadership. “Now it is time we should be given our legitimate right,” he added.
While the Murree pact has seen a huge debate in Balochistan, there are no visible signs of change in the near future at the Civil Secretariat or the Chief Minister Secretariat. But come December, there might be some political upheaval in store.
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