Balochistan Govt formation: PPP & PMLN clash over two-and-a-half-year agreement

QUETTA: The PPP and PML-N have started to echo the agreement for a two-and-a-half-year term regarding government formation in Balochistan.

According to a private TV, PML-N members of the assembly say that their central leadership has informed them of the two-and-a-half-year agreement, while Pakistan Peoples Party leaders say that no such agreement has passed their attention and the PPP will complete its five-year term in Balochistan.

Talking to the media after the Balochistan Assembly session, PML-N member of the assembly, Zark Khan Mandokhel, said that our leadership told us that there is an agreement to govern Balochistan for two-and-a-half years. When the government was being formed, we had told them that the agreement was in writing. The two-and-a-half years are going to be completed in a few months, then everything will be known.

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In this regard, PPP leader and Provincial Minister for Irrigation Mir Sadiq Imrani said that no agreement was reached at the time of government formation in Balochistan and the PPP government will complete 5 years. If the PPP withdraws its support in the federal government, the (N) League government will end.

PPP Balochistan leader and Member of Assembly Ali Madad Jatak said that if the (N) League and PP leadership have made such an agreement, then Bilawal Bhutto will become the Prime Minister after two and a half years. We will also give the Balochistan government to the Muslim League (N) after two and a half years.