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| December 12, 2005 | Monday | Ziqa’ad 9, 1426 |
Govt blamed for financial woes of Balochistan
QUETTA, Dec 11: Opposition parties in the Balochistan Assembly have accused the federal and provincial governments of creating serious financial crisis in the province and urged them to support the opposition’s efforts to protect the constitutional and financial rights of the province.
The opposition parties in a joint meeting here on Sunday, presided over by Kachkol Ali advocate, denounced what they called ‘negative’ attitude of the federal government towards provinces, especially Balochistan.
The meeting observed that the provincial government was helping Islamabad in its ‘illegal and unconstitutional’ measures against the provinces.
It claimed that it was also involved in massive corruption and favouritism and denying merit in all fields in the province.
About the financial crisis of the province, the meeting said that the main cause of this issue was the delaying tactics of the federal government and Punjab’s major role in finalizing the National Finance Commission Award.
The opposition parties were of the view that the rulers were once again fuelling the dead issue of Kalabagh dam ignoring the resolutions of the three provincial assemblies.
The meeting also opposed taxes on minerals and other provincial resources and not giving due share to the province which has accumulated over Rs600 billion only to Balochistan. The participants also demanded that the centre should pay these dues immediately. They further demanded that more funds should be provided for construction of 391 dams in the province.
The meeting rejected the plan ned merger of levies and police and demanded that the government should abandon the plan as the parliamentary committee had also suggested to continue the levies system in Balochistan.
Opposition parties termed delay in electrifying 200 villages, providing gas facilities to different towns and cities, and writing off agriculture loans just to deceive the people of the province. Corrupt political people were around the provincial government and the government was giving protection to their deeds.
The leaders of opposition parties condemned the plan to launch operation, arrests of political workers and leaders in the province and demanded that all political workers should be released and operation should be stopped.
Members of the opposition parties who attended the meeting included Abdul Rahim Ziaratwalm Majeed Achakzai (PAMP), Mir Jan Mohammad Buledi and Dr. Ishaq (National Party) and Mir Akhtar Hussian Lango of Balochistan National Party.
JWP: Jamhoori Watan Party (JWP) secretary information Senator Amanullah Kanrani has condemned the implicating of Nawabzada Baramdagh Bugti, the grandson of Nawab Bugti, in the Karachi bomb blast case.
“It is political victimization,” he said in a statement issued here on Sunday.
The senator said that it was an attempt to keep Nawab Bugti and his family away from politics.
He said registering fake cases against political opponents was not a new phenomenon in Pakistan.
Senator Kanrani said that such tactics of the government could not deter Baloch leaders from seeking provincial rights.
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