22 October 2004	Friday	07 Ramazan 1425

QUETTA, Oct 21: The Awami National Party of Balochistan has demanded that the government should accept the decisions of the committee formed to resolve the issue of Chaman.

Speaking to party members in Qila Abdullah, ANP provincial president Ghulam Sarwar Piralizai warned the government that filing cases against tribal elder Malik Jailani Khan Achakzai and party members would worsen the condition in the bordering town.

According to him, three months ago, three party workers had been killed by a law-enforcement agency in Chaman and after the incident, the government constituted a committee, comprising tribal elders and government officials. Both parties had agreed to honour the decisions of the committee to create harmony, he added.

But, Mr Piralizai regretted, the government neither paid compensation to the families of the victims nor withdrew cases registered against the party leader and workers, as committed at that time.

He said the government should honour the commitment made with the tribal elders and party leaders to restore peace in Chaman, saying that peaceful solution was better than violence.