12 April 2005	Tuesday	02 Rabi-ul-Awwal 1426

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QUETTA, April 11: Jamhoori Watan Party’s secretary-general Agha Shahid Hasan Bugti has accused the federal information minister of trying to sabotage the efforts being made to peacefully resolve the Dera Bugti issue and criticized what he called the insulting remarks made by him against the Baloch leadership. Mr Shahid Bugti said in a statement issued here on Monday that Sheikh Rashid’s alarming statement about the so-called recovery of weapons from Killi Geo in Quetta was aimed at preparing grounds for military operation in Balochistan.

He said that Sheikh Rashid’s statements would in no way help the efforts being made to settle the Dera Bugti issue, adding that whenever Pakistan Muslim League leaders Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and Mushahid Hussain visited Dera Bugti to improve the situation the federal minister issued statements to vitiate the atmosphere.

He accused police of staging a drama of recovery of weapons and arresting two persons dubbing them terrorists. Mr Shahid Bugti said that one of the arrested persons was a grade four employee and the other a student.

He demanded immediate release of people arrested from New Kahan, Killi Qamrani and Killi Geo, and said that implicating innocent people in false cases would widen the gulf between the Baloch masses and the government.