ISLAMABAD July 30: Federal Minister for Inter-provincial Coordination Salim Saifullah Khan has said that the MMA’s threat of pulling out from Balochistan government will end up at dissolution of the provincial assembly and slapping of governor’s rule.

He was commenting on the statement of leader of the opposition in the National Assembly Maulana Fazlur Rahman in which the latter had threatened to pull out of Balochistan government as one option of anti-government agitation.

Talking to Dawn on Sunday Mr Saifullah said it was strange that the MMA which was senior partner in Balochistan by holding major ministerial portfolio would issue such threats.

He further stated that Maulana Fazl’s statement becomes more strange in the wake of the religious alliance’s provincial chapter’s good relations with the centre.

MMA’s provincial president Maulana Mohammad Khan Sherani had recently met president Gen Pervez Musharraf to reassure him of full support of the alliance in the province in government’s initiatives vis a vis mega projects and other issues concerning the province.

Commenting on the PML-MQM tussle in Sindh, he said every junior coalition party has the record of creating such troubles for the government before elections.

He cited the example of the Awami National Party which shared power with Sherpao in 1988, joined provincial government of late Mir Afzal Khan in Nawaz Sharif era but left the coalition ahead of next elections.