KARACHI, Feb 11: Chief of the Balochistan National Party-M Sardar Akhtar Mengal has on Saturday said that there has been no sign of a let-up in the armed conflict in Balochistan.

Rather, he said, the situation was turning from bad to worse with every passing day and the government seemed to have determined to crush the Baloch resistance movement.

The BNP leader said that a meeting of the four-party Baloch Alliance and Ponam’s component parties was being held in Quetta to discuss the fast-changing situation in that province and chalk out a future course of action.

Meanwhile, a spokesman for the party has condemned the armed forces’ attack on the fort house of Jamhoori Watan Party chief Nawab Akbar Bugti. He said that the Baloch people would never surrender their rights.

The spokesman said that it was the government that had imposed the war on Baloch people “to usurp the natural resources of Balochistan” and this challenge had forced Baloch people to defend their land and resources.

“We have not attacked others’ land or snatched their resources. The fact is that our people have been attacked and forcibly ejected from their ancestral lands. They have been made to take shelter in mountains away from their homes.”

According to him, hundreds of innocent Baloch tribesmen, including Marris and Bugtis, have been killed in the ongoing operation so far, and there has been gross violation of human rights as is evident from the report of the Human Rights Commission Pakistan (HRCP).

The spokesman said that the BNP had decided to hold a solidarity march on Sunday in Malir. It will start from Asu Goth at 2pm and terminate at Bakra Piri (Malir).

Meanwhile, BNP leaders Comrade Noor Ahmed Baloch, Maqbool Shah, Khalid Baloch, Haji Murad Abdullah Mengal and others have condemned the military action in Kohlu, Khahan, Sui, Dera Bugti and Mekran.

In a joint statement, they urged workers of all political and religious parties to join in the Sunday rally to express solidarity with the Baloch people who were struggling for their sovereign rights as a nation.