{"id":42157,"date":"2018-01-05T17:00:28","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T12:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=42157"},"modified":"2018-01-05T17:00:28","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T12:00:28","slug":"balochistan-governments-woes-increase-as-another-minister-adviser-resign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=42157","title":{"rendered":"Balochistan government’s woes increase as another minister, adviser resign"},"content":{"rendered":"

QUETTA Jan 05 (TNS):<\/strong> The crisis confronting the Balochistan government escalated on Friday afternoon with the resignations of a provincial minister and the chief minister\u2019s adviser.<\/p>\n

Sources said provincial manpower and labour minister, Rahat Jamali, who hails from the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), has resigned.<\/p>\n

Similarly, the chief minister\u2019s adviser on excise and taxation, Abdul Majid Abro, has also sent his resignation to the governor.<\/p>\n

He too hails from the PML-N and was appointed an\u00a0adviser on January 3, 2018.<\/p>\n

A total of five PML-N members of the provincial cabinet have resigned so far, plunging the provincial government into a severe crisis.<\/p>\n

Moreover, Chief Minister Balochistan Sanaullah Zehri faces a no-confidence motion in the provincial assembly.<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Thursday requested the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-F (JUI-F) leader Maulana Fazlur Rehman to take back his support from the no-confidence motion.<\/p>\n

Sources said the premier met the JUI-F leader at his Islamabad residence along with Federal SAFRON Minister Abdul Qadir Baloch.<\/p>\n

The JUI-F leader presented his conditions, which include\u00a0the making of the incumbent political setup in Balochistan, the future provincial interim government,\u00a0and assurances on the issue of FATA’s merger with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.<\/p>\n

The no-confidence motion against Zehri was submitted on January 2 by lawmakers Syed Agha Raza and Abdul Qudoos Bizenjo, containing the signatures of 14 MPAs.<\/p>\n

Later, the chief minister\u2019s adviser Prince Ahmad Ali Ahmadzai, Fisheries Minister Mir Sarfraz Domki and Home Minister Mir Sarfraz Bugti submitted their resignations.<\/p>\n

Bugti said on Thursday that Balochistan\u2019s political situation should not be compared to the other provinces of the country and added that bringing the no-confidence vote is a democratic right.<\/p>\n

Bugti further said he does not have differences with the PML-N but only with Zehri.<\/p>\n

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QUETTA Jan 05 (TNS): The crisis confronting the Balochistan government escalated on Friday afternoon with the resignations of a provincial minister and the chief minister\u2019s adviser. Sources said provincial manpower and labour minister, Rahat Jamali, who hails from the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), has resigned. Similarly, the chief minister\u2019s adviser on excise and taxation, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,46],"tags":[589,390],"class_list":["post-42157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-quetta","tag-national","tag-quetta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42159,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42157\/revisions\/42159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}