Balochistan Nationalist Party- M chief Sardar Akhtar Mengal has expressed reservations over the coalition government’s decision to choose Senator Anwaarul Haq Kakar as Caretaker Prime Minister without consultations with allied parties, reported the 24NewsHD TV channel.
Taking the social media site X, formerly known as Twitter, Mengal wrote a letter to PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif and expressed disappointment that the country’s problems are being solved through consultations with the establishment instead of politicians.
https://twitter.com/sakhtarmengal/status/1690636449073553408
On Saturday, after weeks of deliberations, Kakar was named the caretaker prime minister after Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Opposition Leader Raja Riaz reached a consensus over his “surprise” nomination.
Head of his own BNP faction, Sardar Akhtar Mengal regretted that the problems of Balochistan, including enforced disappearances, continued, and instead of looking for a political solution, the problems were being solved through force.
“The country’s problems are being solved through consultations with the establishment or by looking at them for a solution instead of politicians,” he lamented.
Mengal also wrote that the PML-N had so quickly forgotten the conspiracies and unconstitutional actions it had borne and did not learn a lesson.
“We vividly remember the injustices we faced from Gen Ayub to Gen Musharraf. But by forgetting the conspiracies and unconstitutional actions of generals Musharraf and Bajwa so soon, your party once again carries out legislation in the dark of the night without taking its allies into confidence allies, which is akin to weakening the democratic institutions, strengthening undemocratic powers and fixing more nails in the coffin of democracy.”
He cautioned that not taking the allied parties into confidence while making important decisions will lead to creating mistrust and bad blood among each other.
Moreover, Mengal complained that in the latest digital census, the population of Balochistan had been reduced by 7.3 million.
However, reacting to the open letter, BAP Senator Sarfraz Bugti tweeted and asked Mengal if it wasn’t an open contradiction that on the one hand, he supported the BAP, the Senate chairman, and the chief minister, but opposed the caretaker prime minister.
“I hope senior politicians like you will revisit their attitudes,” he added.