QUETTA: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Lieutenant General (retd) Abdul Qadir Baloch has decided to resign from the party over not inviting former chief minister Sanaullah Zehri to the protest rally of Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM).
The party’s provincial president took the decision after PML-N’s controversial decision not to invite former Balochistan chief minister Sanaullah Zehri to the recently held Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) rally in Quetta.
According to sources, the PML-N leader will announce his resignation in a press conference today. PDM’s secretary-general, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, had refused to invite Zehri after consulting his party’s top leadership, sources added.
Baloch has served as a federal minister in PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif’s government and is currently the president of PML-N in Balochistan.
Opposition parties, campaigning against the government from the joint platform of PDM, held a rally on October 25 in Quetta.
PDM leaders highlighted the issue of enforced disappearances and other grievances of the people of Balochistan and pledged a turnaround for the province and the rest of the country.
President of the newly formed alliance Maulana Fazalur Rehman, PML-N vice president Maryam Nawaz addressed the attendance at the rally in Ayub Stadium.
Meanwhile, PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif addressed the public meeting via video link. Two hundred chairs were set up in the stadium for participants.
Ahead of the rally, the Balochistan government had banned pillion riding in Quetta. Mobile phone services have been suspended within a 4km radius of the stadium.
