09 January 2005	Sunday	27 Ziqa'ad 1425

QUETTA, Jan 8: Leaders of Balochistan National Party-Mengal, Awami National Party and BNP-Awami have criticized the government for not resolving the unemployment issue of agriculture graduates and technical engineers.

The graduates are on a token hunger strike.

Speaking to these jobless youth, who staged a demonstration in front of the local press club, the representatives of political parties regretted that hunger strikers' protest had entered its seventeenth day on Saturday but no minister or representative of the chief minister visited their camp to talk about their problem.

Habib Jalib Baloch of BNP-M, Najmuddin Kakar of ANP Balochistan, Abdullah Baloch of BNP-A, Fayyaz Raki, Shabir Ahmed and Matin Achakzai of Balochistan Unemployed Agriculture Graduates and Technical Engineers Association addressed the demonstrators.

They alleged that the managements of Uch Power Plant, Saindak Copper Project and Water Management Programme had recruited youths from other provinces, ignoring the local qualified engineers and graduates. This, they claimed, constituted an infringement upon their constitutional rights.