QUETTA, May 29: A dispute is reported to have emerged between Balochistan’s Caretaker Chief Minister Nawab Ghous Bakhsh Barozai and Chief Secretary Babar Yaqoob Fateh Muhammad over a summary for convening the inaugural session of the provincial assembly.

According to sources, the chief minister had objected to the chief secretary sending the summary to Governor Mir Zulfiqar Ali Magsi before forwarding it to him. When the chief minister later received the summary he refused to sign it and threatened to resign. But sources said the chief secretary had sent the summary to the governor because the chief minister was then in Lahore.

The summary was prepared by the provincial law department.When contacted, the chief secretary denied that he had engaged in an argument with the chief minister during a discussion on the summary as reported by some private TV channels. He said he had neither meet Mr Barozai nor talked to him on phone over the past week.

A spokesman of the Balochistan government rejected the reports as false.