QUETTA, May 29: The Balochistan chapter of the Pakistan Muslim League-N observed Yaum-i-Takbir to mark the eighth anniversary of testing nuclear devices by Pakistan. The party vowed to continue its struggle against the military government.

Speaking at a public meeting, MNA Sardar Yaqoob Nasar, who is provincial president of the PML-N, said that despite international pressures, the then prime minister Nawaz Sharif did not compromise on Pakistan’s nuclear programme and the nuclear tests were conducted.

He regretted that the army general toppled the democratic government of Mr Sharif who had made Pakistan an atomic power, the first in the Islamic world.

The PML-N leader said it was the tragedy of the nation that the military ruler ‘forcibly’ sent Mr Sharif abroad and detained the founder of Pakistan’s nuclear programme Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan, under the US pressure.

Condemning the military operation in Balochistan and Waziristan in which he said innocent people were being killed, he hoped that political parties would soon be able to end the army rule.

He said the agreement on Charter of Democracy would restore the Constitution and the supremacy of parliament.

Khuda Noor Khan, Ayaz Khan Swati, Mir Gohar Khan Mengal, Naseemur Rehman Malakhel, Nasibullah Bazai and others also spoke.