QUETTA, Nov 28: The Balochistan National Party (Mengal) organized a rally on Monday to protest against arrests of political workers and to demand that the government should stop harassing activists of political parties. BNP-M vice president Sajid Tareen and information secretary Senator Sana Baloch led the rally and addressed the protesters in the front of press club.

Speakers said that the chief justice of the Balochistan High Court has also taken notice of a police raid on the premises of the court and asked the authorities concerned to submit a report.

They said that not only Aslam Guagrani and Master Saeed were arrested illegally from the court premises, but hundreds of other nationalists were behind bars.

The BNP leaders said that the government had adopted a two-pronged strategy that is to create panic by arresting political activists and at the same time preparing for a military operation in Dera Bugti.

They said that the people of Balochistan would not give up the struggle for their rights.

They claimed that protest meetings and demonstrations were also organized in other parts of the province.