{"id":43435,"date":"2018-01-11T14:11:06","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T09:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=43435"},"modified":"2018-01-11T14:11:06","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T09:11:06","slug":"balochistan-assembly-session-summoned-on-jan-13-to-elect-new-cm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=43435","title":{"rendered":"Balochistan assembly session summoned on Jan 13 to elect new CM"},"content":{"rendered":"

QUETTA Jan 11 (TNS):<\/strong> As the discussions within political circles to find Nawaz Sanaullah Zehri\u2019s replacement has picked up, the governor of Balochistan has summoned an assembly session for January 13 to elect a new chief minister for the provincial cabinet.<\/p>\n

After a no-trust motion against him, Zehri had resigned from his position and submitted resignation to Balochistan Governor Muhammad Khan Achakzai on Tuesday afternoon, who forthwith accepted it.<\/p>\n

Following the resignation of the chief minister, the Balochistan government issued a notification which read: \u201cConsequent upon the resignation of the Chief Minister Balochistan, the provincial ministers and advisers to the chief minister shall also cease to hold their office with immediate effect.\u201d<\/p>\n

With the opposition out of the process, the disgruntled group within the PML-N is set to nominate a new leader of the house.<\/p>\n

Former provincial home minister Sarfaraz Bugti associated with the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Muhammad Saleh Bhootani are being considered top contenders for the coveted slot of the leader of the house in the provincial assembly.<\/p>\n

The names of Jan Muhammad Jamali, Changez Marri\u00a0 and former chief minister Abdul Malik Baloch are also under discussion for the post.<\/p>\n

Sarfaraz Bugti was one of the dissidents who revolted against Zehri and backed the no-confidence motion moved by the opposition.<\/p>\n

Speaking to the media a day earlier, Bugti said the next chief minister of Balochistan will be selected after consultation with political allies, and might not necessarily belong to his party.<\/p>\n

The major opposition parties of Balochistan have announced to distance themselves from the new provincial government set-up after Nawab Sanaullah Zehri\u2019s resignation as chief minister of the province.<\/p>\n

Addressing a crowded press conference alongside BNP-M\u2019s Akhtar Jan Mengal and BNP-A\u2019s Ehsan Shah on Wednesday, leader of the opposition in Balochistan Assembly Maulana Wasey said the opposition parties would not be part of the new government set-up.<\/p>\n

However, he said the opposition would support any candidate for the Chief Minister portfolio named by the disgruntled PML-N legislators.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will vote in support of the PML-N dissidents\u2019 proposed candidate,\u201d Wasey said.<\/p>\n

On the occasion, PML-Q MPA and former deputy speaker Abdul Quddus Bizenjo, and PML-N dissidents Jan Mohammad Jamali and Sardar Saleh Bhootani were also present.<\/p>\n

Balochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M) chief Sardar Akhtar Jan Mengal said his party has been making efforts to uphold democratic norms and would continue to do so in the future.<\/p>\n

Akhtar-led BNP-M has two MPAs in the assembly who previously supported the no-confidence motion against Zehri.<\/p>\n

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QUETTA Jan 11 (TNS): As the discussions within political circles to find Nawaz Sanaullah Zehri\u2019s replacement has picked up, the governor of Balochistan has summoned an assembly session for January 13 to elect a new chief minister for the provincial cabinet. After a no-trust motion against him, Zehri had resigned from his position and submitted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,46],"tags":[589,390],"class_list":["post-43435","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\/43435","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=43435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43437,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43435\/revisions\/43437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}