KARACHI, July 8: The Baloch Rabita Ittefaq Tehrik (BRIT) has favoured the idea of forming a single Baloch party to strive for the rights of Baloch people in the country. However, it suggested that such a party should not be headed by a tribal leader. This was stated by Prince Yahya Baloch, chief of the BRIT’s Balochistan chapter, at a press conference held here on Friday.

About the current situation in that province, the Prince of Kalat said “it is grim as there is no end to sufferings of common man in Balochistan.”

According to him, the people want an economic change in their life and their due share in development activity. Unfortunately, he said, the rulers had always ignored grievances of Baloch people who were being denied basic amenities and essentials of life available everywhere in the new millennium.

He maintained that Baloch people were not only fed up with the rulers but also with those leaders who had betrayed them.

In this context, he argued that both the rulers and political leadership had failed to deliver the goods.

Returning to the idea of forming a single Baloch party, he said it should have a new leadership as the present one had failed to unite Baloch people in their struggle for their due rights.

He agreed that the idea, floated by Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti, was not likely not draw the desired response, but pointed out it was reflective of the fact that people wanted a new leadership other than the tribal one.