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{{Short description|Pakistani politician (born 1961)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Nawab Sanaullah Khan Zehri
| native_name = {{Nastaliq|
نواب ثناء اللہ خان زہری بلوچ}}
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| caption = Nawab Sanaullah Khan Zehri
| office = [[List of Chief Ministers of Balochistan|Chief Minister of Balochistan (15th)]]
| term_start = December 24, 2015
| term_end = January 9, 2018
| president = [[Mamnoon Hussain]]
| primeminister = [[Nawaz Sharif]]
| governor = [[Muhammad Khan Achakzai]]
| predecessor = [[Abdul Malik Baloch]]
| successor = [[Abdul Quddus Bizenjo]]
| office1 = Senior Minister of Balochistan
| term_start1 = June 7, 2013
| term_end1 = December 24, 2015
| president1 = [[Mamnoon Hussain]]
| primeminister1 = [[Nawaz Sharif]]
| governor1 = [[Muhammad Khan Achakzai]]
| 1blankname1 = Chief Minister
| 1namedata1 = [[Abdul Malik Baloch]]
| office2 = Special Assistant to the Prime Minister
| term_start2 = June 7, 2013
| term_end2 = June 20, 2013
| president2 = [[Mamnoon Hussain]]
| primeminister2 = [[Nawaz Sharif]]
| office3 = [[Senate of Pakistan|Member of Senate of Pakistan]] (Senator)
| term_start3 = March 1997
| term_end3 = March 2000
| constituency3 = [[Balochistan, Pakistan]]
| office4 = [[Provincial Assembly of Balochistan|Member of the Provincial Assembly of Balochistan]]
| term_start4 = 2018
| term_end4 =
| constituency4 = PB-38 Khuzdar-I
| term_start5 = 2013
| term_end5 = 2018
| constituency5 = PB-33 Khuzdar-I
| term_start6 = 2008
| term_end6 = 2013
| constituency6 = PB-33 Khuzdar-I
| term_start7 = 2002
| term_end7 = 2007
| constituency7 = PB-33 Khuzdar-I
| term_start8 = 1993
| term_end8 = 1996
| constituency8 = PB-30 Khuzdar-I
| term_start9 = 1990
| term_end9 = 1993
| constituency9 = PB-30 Khuzdar-I
| term_start10 = 1988
| term_end10 = 1990
| constituency10 = PB-30 Khuzdar-I
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1961|08|04}}
| birth_place = [[Khuzdar]], [[Balochistan, Pakistan|Balochistan]], [[Pakistan]]
| party = [[Pakistan People's Party]]
| citizenship = [[Pakistanis|Pakistani]]
| nationality = Pakistani
| children = Sikander Khan Zehri, Hamza Khan Zehri, Ayesha Zehri
| parents = Sardar Doda Khan Zehri (father)
| residence =
| occupation =
| profession = Politician, chief of [[Jhalawan]] , ''nawab'' of Zehri(Baloch) tribe
| cabinet = [[Government of Balochistan, Pakistan]]
| committees =
| website =
| education = [[University of Balochistan]]<br />{{small|[[Bachelor of Arts|(BA)]]}}<ref name="e"/>
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'''Nawab Sanaullah Khan Zehri ''' ({{lang-ur|{{Nastaliq|نواب ثناء اللہ خان زہری بلوچ }}}}) was the [[List of Chief Ministers of Balochistan|Chief Minister of Balochistan]] from December 24, 2015, to December 9, 2017. He belongs to Channal Zarakzai family and also the ''[[Nawab]]'' of the Zehri tribe and chief of [[Jhalawan]]. Zehri succeeded [[Abdul Malik Baloch]] as chief minister [[Balochistan, Pakistan|Balochistan]], [[Pakistan]] on December 24, 2015 as part of the power sharing deal brokered in the resort town of [[Murree]].<ref name=a>{{cite news|publisher=Samaa|title=Baloch vacates CM office as Murree agreement takes effect|url=http://www.samaa.tv/pakistan/2015/12/baloch-vacates-cm-office-for-pml-ns-zehri/|date=12 December 2015}}</ref><ref name=z>{{cite news|title=Zehri elected new Balochistan CM|publisher=Samaa TV|url=http://www.samaa.tv/pakistan/2015/12/zehri-elected-new-balochistan-cm/|date=24 December 2015}}</ref> Zehri was the central president of the [[Pakistan Muslim League (N)|Pakistan Muslim League]]'s Balochistan branch and a confidant of former Prime Minister [[Nawaz Sharif]]<ref name=b>{{cite news|last1=Pakistan Herald|title=Sanaullah Zehri|url=http://www.pakistanherald.com/profile/sanaullah-khan-zehri-1446|accessdate=10 October 2014|agency=Pakistan Herald|publisher=Pakistan Herald|date=29 October 2013}}</ref> He left the PML-N on November 7, 2020.

On June 7, 2013, Zehri was appointed senior minister of Balochistan with portfolios of communication works, mines, minerals, On January 9, 2018, due to the imminence of a no-confidence vote against him, Zehri resigned from his post as chief minister to prevent the brewing of a political crisis.

==Biography==
Nawab Sanaullah Zehri was born in Anjeera in the [[Khuzdar District]], [[Balochistan, Pakistan|Balochistan]], Pakistan, on August 4, 1961. His father, Sardar Doda Khan Zehri, was a tribal leader and an [[List of Pakistan Movement activists|activist]] in the [[Pakistan Movement]] who played a crucial role in gathering Balochistan's support for the cause of Pakistan.<ref name=c>{{cite web |title=Sardar Sanaullah Khan Zehri|url=http://www.pabalochistan.gov.pk/index.php/members/profile/en/26/379|publisher=Provincial Assembly of Balochistan, press|accessdate=10 October 2014}}</ref><ref name=d>{{cite web|last1=News desk|title=GEO elections monitoring cell: Sanaullah Zehri|url=http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ZXca-QUpOwQJ:election2013.geo.tv/candidates/detail/3000/sardar-sanaullah-zehri.html+&cd=6&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us|publisher=GEO News, elections cell|accessdate=10 October 2014}}</ref> He graduated with a [[Bachelor of Arts|BA]] degree in [[political science]] in 1983 from the [[University of Balochistan]].<ref name=d/>

Upon graduating from Balochistan University, he ran in the 1990 [[Provincial Assembly of Balochistan|Balochistan Assembly]] [[1990 Pakistani general election|general election]], performing well on the [[Pakistan Muslim League (N)|PML(N)]]'s conservative platform.<ref name=c/> During this time, he campaigned for [[Local government in Pakistan|local government]] in Balochistan.<ref name=c/> In 1997, he contested and triumphed in a [[Senate of Pakistan|senate]] election, representing Balochistan until 1999. Zehri ran for the [[List of constituencies of Pakistan|PB-50 (Khuzdar-I)]] constituency on the [[National Party (Pakistan)|National Party]]'s platform during the 2002 [[2002 Pakistani general election|general election]]. He served as the provincial minister of prisons and tribal affairs until 2003.<ref name=e>{{cite web |title=Sardar Sanaullah Khan Zehri|url=http://www.pakistanileaders.com.pk/profile/Sardar_Sanaullah_Khan_Zehri|publisher=Pakistani leaders online|accessdate=10 October 2014}}</ref>

In 2008, the National Party boycotted the general election. Zehri disagreed with the move, leaving the party, and in February he won a seat in the assembly under his own, newly founded the National Party.In September 2006, Zehri participated in a [[loya jirga]] called by the [[Khan of Kalat]], [[Mir Suleman Dawood Jan]], following the death of [[Akbar Bugti]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Malik Siraj Akbar|title=The Redefined Dimensions of Baloch Nationalist Movement|publisher=Xlibris Corporation|year=2011|page=181}}</ref>{{Self-published inline|certain=yes|date=December 2017}}

On January 6, 2010, he joined the [[Pakistan Muslim League (N)|Pakistan Muslim League]].<ref name=f>{{cite news|last1=Dawn.com|title=Sanaullah Zehri, Qadir Baloch join PML-N|url=http://www.dawn.com/news/954118/sanaullah-zehri-qadir-baloch-join-pml-n|accessdate=26 September 2014|agency=Dawn newspaper|publisher=Dawn newspaper, 2010|date=6 January 2010}}</ref><ref name=g>{{cite news|last1=From the Newspapers|title= Pakistan Muslim League (N) names Zehri for Balochistan CM post|accessdate=10 October 2014|agency=Dawn news papers, 2010|date=29 May 2013|url=http://beta.dawn.com/news/1011601/n-names-zehri-for-balochistan-cm-post}}</ref> In August 2011, Baloch was selected by PML(N) as the assistant secretary general of the PML-N for Balochistan.<ref name=f/><ref name=h>{{cite web|url=http://www.dawn.com/2011/08/07/two-ex-generals-picked-for-key-pml-n-positions.html|title=Two ex-generals picked for key PML-N positions|work=[[Dawn (newspaper)|Dawn]]|date=7 August 2011|accessdate=15 October 2011}}</ref>

In 2013, Zehri defended his constituency on PML-N's platform and was initially named as candidacy for [[List of Chief Ministers of Balochistan|Chief Minister]] of Balochistan.<ref name=i>{{cite news|last1=Web edition|title=Sanaullah Zehri named for Balochistan CM post|url=http://www.thenews.com.pk/article-101285-Sanaullah-Zehri-named-for-Balochistan-CM-post|accessdate=10 October 2014|agency=News International|publisher=News International|date=17 May 2013}}</ref> However, Prime Minister [[Nawaz Sharif]] instead approved the appointment of [[Abdul Malik Baloch]] as the chief minister of Balochistan.<ref name=i/>

On April 16, 2013, Zehri escaped an assassination attempt<ref>{{cite news|last1=Desk|first1=Web|title=Sardar Sanaullah Zehri's convoy attacked, 3 family members killed|url=http://tribune.com.pk/story/536257/nawab-sanaullah-zehris-convoy-attacked-3-family-members-killed/|publisher=Express Tribune|date=16 April 2013}}</ref> on his life when his convoy came under a bomb attack in his native Khuzdar district. The attack killed his son, Sikander Zehri, brother Mir Meharullah Zehri and nephew Mir Zaid. The [[Balochistan Liberation Army]] (BLA), claimed responsibility for the attack on Zehri.<ref>{{cite news|title=Son, brother and nephew of Sardar Zehri die in bomb attack|url=http://www.dawn.com/news/803115/son-brother-and-nephew-of-sardar-zehri-die-in-bomb-attack|publisher=Dawn|date=April 17, 2013}}</ref>

On November 23, 2020, Sanaullah lost his daughter Ayesha Zehri allegedly due to Covid 19.<ref>https://arynews.tv/en/ex-balochistan-cm-zehri-daughter-covid-19/</ref>

== Further reading ==
* {{Cite news|title=The Baloch Cauldron|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/the-baloch-cauldron-balochistan-assembly-pakistan-pmln-5022304/|date=January 13, 2018|first=Khaled|last=Ahmed|newspaper=[[The Indian Express]]}}

== References ==
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20130516080147/http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/editors-picks/16-May-2013/peace-top-priority-says-zehri Peace top priority, says Zehri]

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