JI

Published March 29, 2005
LAHORE, March 28: Jamaat-i-Islami deputy secretary-general MNA Farid Piracha proposes certain measures to resolve the Balochistan crisis. Speaking at a press conference here on Monday, he feared a 1971 like tragedy if a military solution to the Balochistan crisis was sought.

The JI leader, who toured the troubled areas as a member of the parliamentary committee on March 22, said any provisional measures or patchwork would only worsen the situation. He said a commission comprising high court judges should be appointed to hold a probe into the March 17 Dera Bugti incident.

He demanded payment of substantial compensation to the heirs of the deceased through the tribal jirga.

Land reforms, he said, should be enforced in letter and spirit in Balochistan besides provision of interest-free agricultural loans and installation of tubewells on a large scale by the government.

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