QUETTA, Aug 23: Chief Minister Jam Yousuf has said that contacts between the federal government and some political groups having apprehensions about mega projects and the formation of a Senate's parliamentary committee are major developments.
Talking to newsmen at the Chief Minister's House on Monday, Mr Yousuf said that he had accepted Prime Minister Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain's offer to join the Senate committee for resolving the provincial issues through dialogues.
The chief minister said that he had earlier invited the political parties opposing the mega uplift programme for talks, but they did not respond positively.
He said that anyhow it was a good omen that they have at present agreed to join the dialogue process initiated by the Centre.
Mr Yousuf reiterated that financiers in Gwadar would invest their capital but would not be registered as voters or get domicile certificates to influence the electoral or employment rights of the natives. But one thing was obvious that the financiers would invest their capital only if they get some benefits.
MARRI LEADER: Nawabzada Balaach Marri son of Nawab Khair Bakhsh Marri has said that neither government contacted his father for dialogue nor he is willing to hold deliberations on the Baloch rights.
In a statement issued here on Monday night he stated that Nawab Akbar Bugti and Sardar Ataullah Mengal were our elders and if both of them felt that through negotiations they could achieve the rights of Baloch people then we have no objection to it.
He claimed that government was not sincere to recognize the Baloch rights and floating the idea of negotiations was aimed to weaken the unity of Balochis. He asserted that in past the government had several time staged the drama of negotiations and during this process it continued looting the resources of the province.
We would not come in trap this time, he added. He declared that struggle was the way to get the national rights, the statement concluded.
