QUETTA, April 1: A leader of Balochistan National Party (Mengal), Nahila Qadari, has urged the government to stop raiding houses of political activists. Speaking at a press conference in the Press Club here on Friday, she said that actions of the government would make political workers resort to violence.

Nahila Qadari criticized police for issuing arrest warrants for Mir Wahdood Raisani, chief of Raisani Qaumi Ittehad, for taking part in a demonstration in front of Balochistan Assembly on March 18 against the killing of Bugti tribesmen in Dera Bugti. She accused police of raiding houses in Marri Camp and Killi Qamrani, insulting women and pressuring them into quitting the Balochistan National Movement.

The BNP-M leader said that the Musharraf government had given sweeping powers to police whereas the elected nazims had been made powerless. She demanded that the Quetta district nazim and naib nazim relinquished their posts for failing to protect rights of their constituents.—Correspondent