Balochistan govt crisis: Dr Malik to meet angry PML-N ministers today

The coalition partners will sit together and try to resolve grievances.

QUETTA:

Balochistan Chief Minister Dr Abdul Malik Baloch will meet today the ministers from his government’s major coalition partner, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), and hear their grievances.

The delegation of ministers will be led by senior minister and PML-N provincial chief Sardar Sanaullah Zehri.

“It has been decided that both coalition partners will sit together, discuss the grievances and resolve them amicably,” said the ruling National Party’s (NP) Secretary General Tahir Bizenjo, who is also expected to attend the meeting.

“These are not serious issues and such problems are usual to emerge in a coalition government,” he told The Express Tribune, adding that the response from Sardar Zehri was positive during the last meeting.

“All he wanted was to sit together and discuss the grievances and today we are going to meet again,” Bizenjo added.



The PML-N ministers had complained that they were not paid due attention in the day-to-day administrative affairs and that the Chief Minister Secretariat had turned into a meeting place of the National Party.

A leader of the PML-N, requesting anonymity, said there was no major dispute and the issues revolved around day-to-day administrative problems.

He said such issues propped up off and on among the coalition partners and were resolved without intervention from the centre.

“Balochistan government is a constitutional government and is not subservient to the federal government,” a seasoned political analyst remarked.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 19^th, 2014.