QUETTA, Oct 19: Two more independent members-elect of the Balochistan Assembly, Col (retd) Younas Changezi and Mir Amanullah Notezai, joined the Pakistan Muslim League (Q) here on Saturday.

They made this announcement at separate news conferences, in the presence of Jam Mohammad Yousaf, provincial president of the PML(Q).

With the joining of these two independent MPAs, the PML (Q)’s strength in the house of 51 has reached to 14.

In Balochistan, seven independents were elected to the provincial assembly out of which four have so far joined the PML(Q).

Mir Balach Khan Marri, the younger son of veteran nationalist leader Nawab Khair Bakhsh Marri, who won from Kohlu, has announced that he would maintain his independent status.

Another independent MPA-elect from Zhob, Haji Jamal Shah, who defeated the MMA candidate, has already joined the JUI.

The former finance minister and PML-N leader Jafar Khan Mandokhel, who with PMAP’s support was elected from Zhob, has so far not joined any party. However, sources claimed he would join the PML(Q) on Sunday (today).

Syed Sher Jan Baloch and Mrs Nasreen Rehman Khetran have already joined the PML(Q).

Now both the MMA and PML(Q) have 14 members each in the Balochistan Assembly.