QUETTA, May 17: The leader of opposition in the Balochistan Assembly, Kachkol Ali, has criticised the government for implicating Jamhoori Watan Party’s parliamentary leader in the assembly, Haji Juma Bugti, in the murder of the naib tehsildar of Sui.

In a statement issued here on Wednesday, he said political forces would continue their struggle for the rights of the Baloch people.

He said false cases against elected representatives of people could not force them to surrender before what he called oppressors.

Mr Ali termed the registration of the case against Juma Bugti political victimisation, saying it was aimed at pressuring the JWP leader not to work for the rights of the people.

He said without proper investigation, a public representative had been implicated in what he called a false case.

The opposition leader claimed that JWP leader Nawab Akbar Bugti and other members of the party were struggling for the rights of the Baloch and protecting resources of Balochistan.

He said that despite the military operation in Balochistan, arrests of political workers and raids on nationalists’ houses and their implication in false cases, the struggle against what he called usurpers looting resources of the province for five decades would continue.

Meanwhile, the JWP also condemned the filing of the case against Juma Bugti and the arrest of Qamar Gichki, a relative of Balochistan National Party-Mengal chief Sardar Akhtar Mengal.

In a statement, a spokesman for the party said the filing of the case was aimed at keeping away the party’s parliamentary leader from the struggle to defend the motherland against exploiters.

He said the government could not subdue the voice of the JWP and other nationalist political parties struggling for the national rights of the Baloch people.