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| February 13, 2006 | Monday | Muharram 14, 1427 |
Call to give up policy of confrontation
QUETTA, Feb 12: The Pukhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party and Balochistan National Party (Mengal) have asked the government to abandon its policy of victimizing the Baloch and Pukhtuns, warning that a confrontational attitude would cause irreparable harm to the unity of the federation.
Speaking at a rally held here on Saturday, the speakers condemned the recent raid on the home of PMAP chairman Mahmood Khan Achakzai and shelling of Dera Bugti and Kohlu areas.
PMAP senior deputy chairman Abdur Rahim Mandokhel, BNP-M secretary-general Habib Jalib Baloch, MPA Abdur Rahim Ziaratwal and others spoke on the occasion.
The speakers said that personnel of intelligence agencies had on Feb 8 arrested three bodyguards the PMAP chief and ransacked his house.
They said that according to the legal procedure security officials could not enter any house without the permission of the area magistrate and no citizen could be taken into custody without arrest warrants.
They said Mr Achakzai’s life had been under threat for 15 years and bodyguards with light weapons were protecting him. They said Mr Achakzai had gone to perform Haj and the bodyguards were not carrying weapons when they were arrested.
They denounced the military operation in Dera Bugti and Kohlu.
They alleged that the rulers had deprived the Pukhtuns, Baloch, Sindhis and Seraikis of their constitutional and political rights. Resources of the oppressed nationalities were being looted, they said.
They said the rulers’ policies against their political opponents would fail and the leadership of the Pakistan Oppressed Nations’ movement would not compromise on the rights of the deprived nationalities.
They said the government must resolve political issues politically instead of using the state machinery against the leadership of Balochistan, Pukhtunkhwa and Sindh.
They reiterated that they would not allow establishment of cantonments in the province nor permit the government to merge the levies into police.
The Balochistan Assembly had passed resolutions against construction of garrisons and abolition of the levies system, they said.
Earlier, PMAP activists took out procession from the party’s secretariat to the taxi stand. Participants of the procession chanted slogans against President Pervez Musharraf and the Inter-Services Intelligence.
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