ISLAMABAD: Fourteen opposition members of the Balochistan Assembly (BA) on Tuesday submitted a no-confidence motion against Chief Minister Nawaz Sanaullah Zehri, citing unfulfilled commitments as the reason.

“Commitments made to us were not fulfilled,” Syed Raza Agha, a legislator from Majlis Wahdatul Muslimeen who is one of the 14 signatories to the motion, told the reporters. “We want to bring a change in the House.”

Quddus Bizenjo, a former deputy speaker of the Balochistan Assembly who is also a party to the no-confidence motion, defended the move, saying: “This is our constitutional and political right to submit a no-confidence move against the chief minister.”

The motion also had signatures of Awami National Party’s parliamentary leader Zamarak Achakzai; Khalilur Rehman of Jamiate Ulemae Ulemae Islam-Fazl (JUI-F); Balochistan National Party President Sardar Akhtar Mengal; Pakistan Muslim League-Q (PML-Q), Mir Abdul Karim Nowsherwani and Dr Ruqia Hashmi; and Mir Amanullah Notezai, among others.

In the wake of the motion, Zehri, who belongs to the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), called a meeting of his coalition partners to chalk out a strategy to tackle the no-confidence move.

The no-trust resolution will likely be defeated because the PML-N, supported by the National Party headed by Hasil Bizenjo, who is a federal minister, Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) of Mehmood Achakzai and others are in majority in the Balochistan assembly.