QUETTA: The central leadership of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz has started efforts for saving the coalition government of Balochistan Chief Minister Sanaullah Zehri against the no-confidence motion submitted by the opposition on Jan 2.

Minister for States and Frontier Regions retired Lt Gen Abdul Qadir Baloch reached Quetta on Saturday and met Mr Zehri and started contacting the leaders who have revolted against the chief minister.

But the three-member com-mittee formed by the PML-N high command headed by Raja Zafarul Haq with Khawaja Saad Rafiq and Ahsan Iqbal as its members to help defeat the notrust motion is yet to reach the Balochistan capital.

Sources said that Raja Zaf arul Haq had contacted a senior PML-N leader on phone and discussed the situation with him.

They said that the senior PML-N leader informed Raja Zafarul Haq that the situation was complex and told him that the visit by his committee would not help in this regard.

Railways Minister Khawaja Saad Rafiq contacted Balochistan National Party chiefAkhtar Mengal on phone and sought his cooperation to defeat the no-trust motion. Sources said that Mr Mengal told the minister that he could not withdraw his party`s support for the no-trust motion.

Former deputy speaker of the Balochistan Assembly Mir Abdul Qudoos Bizenjo claimed that the opposition was enjoying the support of members required for the winning the game.

However, Aslam Bizenjo, who holds the portfolios of Finance and Agriculture, told newsmen that all the eight members of the National Party, including Mir Khalid Langove who had signed the no-trust motion, would voteagainst the motion.

`The National Party is intact and will play its due role in defeating the motion against Mr Zehri,` he said.

He said that the role of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl was very important in the no-trust motion, but refuted the reports that Mr Zehri had offered three ministries to the JUI-F in his cabinet.

The JUI-F had also not asked for the ministries, he added.

Former home minister Sarfaraz Bugti rejected the claim of Senator Usman Kakar of the Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party that two members of his party had received threatening calls.