QUETTA, Dec 10: Former Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali has condemned the Quetta bomb blast and said such subversive acts would affect the federal government's development programmes in the province.

He was talking to this correspondent on Friday from Islamabad by telephone. Expressing shock over the loss of lives, he said that saboteurs were trying to harass people and their objective was to block major development projects launched by President Pervez Musharraf.

He said that anti-people forces did not want the people of Balochistan to prosper. Expressing condolences with the families of the bomb blast victims, Mr Jamali hoped that the people of Balochistan would continue to support the development programme and policies of the federal government to curb terrorism.