Balochistan’s Parliamentary Secretary for Transport, Liaquat Lehri, has sharply criticized Chief Minister Sarfraz Bugti, accusing him of incompetence and holding him responsible for the region’s worsening economic and political crisis.
Speaking to reporters, the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader said that “due to the lack of effective governance, the situation in Balochistan is deteriorating day by day,” adding that “full responsibility for this lies with the incompetence of Chief Minister Sarfraz Bugti.”
“Sarfraz Bugti is incompetent and will remain incompetent,” Lehri said. “The chief minister only knows how to talk, not how to work.”
Lehri said that for more than a year and a half, lawmakers had remained silent as businesses shut down and unemployment spread across the region. He alleged that Bugti’s administration had failed to provide even basic governance and that its policies had worsened public hardship.
“The situation in Balochistan has become extremely dire,” he said, citing “an economic crisis, insecurity, and political instability — all of which are the direct result of the chief minister’s failures.”
The PPP lawmaker accused Bugti of relying on “a few favoured bureaucrats” to run Balochistan, claiming that such arrangements had alienated the public and damaged the party’s credibility.
Lehri said he would raise the issue in the Balochistan Assembly and move a resolution demanding a change in leadership. “We will become the voice of the people of Balochistan and launch a movement inside the assembly for the removal of the chief minister so that a capable and sincere leadership can take charge,” he said.