“Lashkari Raisani submitted his resignation to the party’s top leadership today (April 17),” a close associate of Raisani told The Express Tribune. He also formally resigned from senate, tendering his resignation to Senate Chairman Syed Nayyar Hussain Bokhari.
The former party leader maintained that the PPP was unable to trace missing persons and stop target killings in the province. “The reason for this resignation is my disillusionment with the present PPP leadership,” stated Raisani in his one-page resignation letter.
Two months earlier, Raisani developed differences with the party’s top leadership over the issue of awarding senate tickets to party workers as well as resolving the Balochistan issue. He said he had already planned his resignation in advance, and that he would disclose his reasons for quitting in a few days.
Raisani had resigned as president of PPP’s Balochistan chapter last year. The ex-PPP leader, who is also Balochistan Chief Minister Nawab Aslam Raisani’s younger brother, was not satisfied with the central leadership’s handling of issues pertaining to Balochistan, claiming the government had mishandled it.
Political analysts told The Express Tribune that the government’s efforts to address the issues of the troubled province may face a serious setback after Raisani’s resignation.
However, Mir Muhammad Ali Talpur, an expert on Balochistan, said: “Lashkari Raisani’s, or for that matter even his brother Chief Minister Aslam Raisani’s resignation are inconsequential and will have no effect on politics or the insurgency because Balochistan is being run by the army and the FC, and will continue to be run (by them) in the foreseeable future.”
Published in The Express Tribune, April 18th, 2012.
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