30 April 2005	Saturday	20 Rabi-ul-Awwal 1426

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SHEIKHUPURA, April 29: Three Sardars namely Bugti, Mengal and Murri are responsible for a disturbance in Balochistan.

This was claimed by the inspector general of Balochistan police, Chaudhry Mohammad Yaqoob, while talking to press here on Friday.

The IGP said a gang of 20 to 25 people, involved in creating the law and order situation in Balochistan, had been busted recently and sophisticated weapons, including rocket launchers, recovered from their possession. He said there could be a foreign hand behind all disturbance in the province.

He said the three Sardars, worried about the development process in the province, were creating obstacles in various mega projects carried out by the government as they did not want a better change in the living standard of the common man and a solution to unemployment. They only wanted to make the people their ‘slaves’, he said.

The IGP said Balochistan had been divided in two sectors to maintain the law and order. The first part was given under the control of police and the other to the Levies. He said mostly disturbance occurred in those parts which were under the control of the Levies. So, President Musharraf ordered to end the Levies’ control there and the entire province was given under the police control.

He said in 1992 when Nawaz Sharif was the prime minister and Zafarullah Khan Jamali the Balochistan chief minister, some members of the Murry Tribe, including Khair Bakhsh Murry, were called in the province, under an agreement, on the pretext of maintaining the law and order. The government provided them with an accommodation and funds in billions. He said when the police raided their residence during a recent operation, a huge quantity of arms, rocket launchers, detonators, times bombs and other devices were recovered from their possession.

The Balochistan IGP claimed that those arrested revealed during interrogation that they were involved in all bomb blasts and other disturbances occurred in the province.

He said a five-member group, rounded up in Hazdar, confessed to having killed five armymen and a civilian. Those arrested belonged to the Bugti Tribe.

During investigation, they also confessed that they were involved in the Sibbi railway line blast. Similarly, they had also damaged various Wapda transmission lines by blasts, he said. They had set up their headquarters in Hazdar from where they provided wrong information to the media that all wrongdoings in the province were because of the excesses of the Balochistan Liberation Army and the Balochistan Liberation Force.

The IGP said those arrested had got training at a camp located at Tally station, some 40km away from Sibbi, and were paid a salary of Rs5,000 to Rs10,000 per month.