Sanaullah Zehri quits PML-N after Nawaz Sharif’s narrative

Former Chief Minister of Balochistan Sardar Sanaullah Zehri on Saturday announced to part ways with Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) accusing Nawaz Sharif of “betraying all those who stood by him in testing times”.

“From today, Nawaz Sharif is our political opponent,” said Nawab Zehri while announcing his resignation from the PML-N’s Central Executive Committee.

“I’ll chalk out future course of action after consulting my friends and aides.”

He challenged the PML-N to secure even a single seat from the province without their support. “I challenge PML-N to secure the win on even a single seat from Balochistan now,” he said during an event while flanked by another former PML-N stalwart Abdul Qadir Baloch, who left the party recently.

Zehri, a former chief minister of Balochistan, is the second PML-N leader to have resigned from the party. Last week Lt Gen (retd) Abdul Qadir Baloch quit the party “in protest against Nawaz Sharif’s anti-military narrative”, though the party sought to give it different colour.

Former CM recalled that he and Qadir Balochwere awarded PML-N tickets from Balochistan when nobody was ready to contest polls on their party symbol in 2018.

“We will now show him as to who owns Balochistan, either it is the Baloch people or him,” said Zehri while terming Nawaz a friend of Modi. “I announce my resignation from the Central Executive Committee of Nawaz Sharif and will now openly challenge him at every platform,” he said.