19 November 2004	Friday	06 Shawwal 1425

QUETTA, Nov 18: Pakistan Workers Party president Nasrullah Khan Kakar has accused the elements opposing the mega uplift programme of creating uncertainty in the province in order to serve the interests of their foreign masters.

He was speaking at a press conference in the Press Club on the occasion of several tribal elders announcing their decisiontojoin the party on Thursday.

The PWP leader said the people of Balochistan were moderate in their political outlook and fully backed the development activities launched by the federal government.

He criticized the nationalist political groups which, according to him, were playing in the hands of some tribal chieftains to create doubts in the minds of the people about the mega projects, and maintained that the uplift programme would bring prosperity to the province after the uplift projects were completed.

Mr Kakar also accused the ministers of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal in the Balochistan coalition government for malpractices, alleging that some personal secretaries of the religious alliance ministers were providing liquor to people in their official vehicles.

He said his party believed in positive politics to resolve the political issues through dialogue. Violence, he added, had never solved the problems confronting the people.

The PWP leader claimed that Pukthunkhwa Milli Awami Party leadership was confused in politics as on the one hand, it demand a Pukhtun province from Bolan to Chitral and, on the other hand, it requested the parliamentary sub-committee to establish the erstwhile chief commissionerate province, reflecting the 'immature stance' of the nationalist group.

Earlier, Mir Muzaffar Hussain Jamali, Mir Ghulam Rasool Umrani, Mir Shehzada Munir Ahmed, Mir Mohammad Amin Mohammad Hasni and Mir Saifullah Jan announced to join the PWP, saying it was the party of middle class struggling to achieve the rights of the common man.

The tribal elders, lauding the policies of President Gen Pervez Musharraf, said he was the first ruler who had launched mega projects to redress the grievances of the people of the province.