QUETTA, Sept 3: The Balochistan National Party (Mengal) on Friday criticized police for keeping handcuffed in the jail ward of a hospital the party's activists who had been injured in militiamen's firing in Wadh.

Speaking at a press conference at the press club, Balochistan Assembly member Akhtar Hussain Langoo and BNP-M executive committee member Malik Wali Kakar warned the government that such acts would affect its dialogue with the Baloch leadership.

They said the party would react strongly if the government did not stop treating the prisoners in violation of the law. They alleged that the Frontier Corps had killed two BNP-M workers and injured two others on Aug 29 in Wadh and when families of the victims wanted to lodge a case against the militiamen the police station concerned refused to register it.

The BNP-M leaders said they wanted to tell the chief secretary that police were keeping Haji Abdur Rahim handcuffed in the civil hospital but the official refused to meet them.