KARACHI, March 28: The National Party has stressed the need for unity and effective coordination among all democratic and nationalist parties for a decisive movement to oust the “present dictatorial regime” and establish a real democratic system ensuring sovereign rights of all national units in the country.
Making an impassioned appeal to the ARD, Ponam and MMA leadership for the purpose, NP President Dr Abdul Hayee Baloch said that time had come that we set aside all our differences and direct our energies toward the common enemy.
Speaking at a reception given in honour of party leaders by a central committee member at Old Golimar on Tuesday afternoon, the NP leader said that the Baloch nationalist forces struggling for the sovereign rights of Baloch people were ready to play their due role in dislodging the present regime and establishing a democratic order in the country.
He held the Establishment responsible for creating messy conditions in the country by concentrating unlimited powers in one man and denying the smaller units of the federation of their right to self-determination and control of their economic resources.
He alleged that the rulers were planning to uproot Baloch from their native lands and promoting tribal feuds in Balochistan, saying, “it is not the job of the federal government to settle tribal disputes.”
He condemned the federal government for meddling in the tribal affairs of the Bugti area, saying that the Centre had fully exposed its sinister designs and dirty game. “And it has now been proved that the Centre only wanted to capture the gas resources in the area by force.”
However, he declared, the attempts to pit one tribal faction against the other would never succeed and the Baloch people would frustrate all such designs.
He urged the nationalist and democratic forces of the country to support the national struggle of the Baloch people who were subjected to state oppression.
Dr Baloch rejected as ‘propaganda’ Islamabad’s claim that it was taking action to establish writ of the government in the troubled areas.
Regretting that the country had suffered greatly due to the ill-advised policies of the Establishment, he urged all the democratic forces of the country to get united and launch an effective movement to dislodge the “corrupt and dictatorial regime.”
He said his party firmly believed in a democratic dispensation which could ensure rights of all national units of the country.
He maintained that Balochistan crisis was a result of the denial of people’s rights.
Earlier, the party’s secretary, Yaqub Baloch, welcomed the guests from Balochistan.
