QUETTA: Balochistan Chief Minister Mir Abdul Quddus Bizenjo will announce the launch of a new political party in Balochistan on Wednesday (today), according to sources.

They said the CM would make the announcement about the formation of the party with his cabinet members as well as the dissenting members of the Pakistan Muslim LeagueNawaz (PML-N).

The latter played a crucial role in forcing the chief minister appointed by the FML-N, Nawab Sanaullah Zehri, to resign from his post in January.

All required paperwork for the creation ofthe party has been completed after consulting constitutional and legal experts.

`We are ready to announce the formation of a new political party in Balochistan,` a dissident leader of the PML-N told Dawn, adding that CM Bizenjo would only make a formal announcement.

Last Friday the CM had confirmed in a press conference the rumours that had lately been doing the rounds that a new political was in the making. Mr Bizenjo had claimed that the new party would be called the National Democratic Alliance. However, sources close to Dawn said that Baloch politicians agreed on a different name for the party. A senior leader from the dissident PML-N group claimed that all legal formalities had been completed and that the party would be registered with the Election Commission of Pakistan.

According to sources, the leaders of the new party have not yet decided who the president is going to be, but names of former governor Nawab Zulfiqar Ali Magsi, ex-CM Jan Mohammad Khan Jamali among others have been tabled.

The final decision on who the president is going to be will be made after further discussions within the party leadership.

`All dissident MPAs of the PML-N and independent senators who were elected in the recent Senate elections would be important members of the new party,` the sources said.