June 26, 2005	Sunday	Jumadi-ul-Awwal 18, 1426

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QUETTA, June 25: Chief of Jamhoori Watan Party (JWP) Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti has said that people would be consulted once a report of the parliamentary committee on Balochistan comes out. He was talking to newsmen in his native town Dera Bugti after a meeting with PML secretary-general Senator Mushahid Hussain Syed who had come to the town along with Mir Sher Ali Mazari to condole the death of his younger brother, Mir Ahmed Nawaz Bugti, on Saturday.

He said that Senator Mushahid briefed him on the work of the sub-committee on Balochistan he headed. He quoted the PML leader as telling him that the written report of the committee would be sent to him (Nawab Bugti) for a detailed study.

Mr Bugti told Mr Mushahid that he had no mandate in this connection from others. However, he added, they (other political forces of the province) usually listened to him.

“After receiving the written report one can judge what has been suggested in it,” Mr Bugti said. Replying to a question, he said that he queried Mr Mushahid that if the people of Balochistan rejected the report then how the government will implement it. “There will be no other option with the government but to implement it unilaterally,” he remarked.

The chief of JWP said that if the people disowned the report, then it could not be implemented unilaterally.

“If we found something important in the report, then it would be shared with the people to let them see what benefit they would derive. And (they would also be informed about) what was not included in it,” Mr Bugti said, stressing that people would be taken into full confidence in this regard.

“They would take the final decision”.

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