August 16, 2006	Wednesday	Rajab 20, 1427

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QUETTA, Aug 15: The leader of opposition in provincial assembly, Mr Kachkol Ali Baloch, has urged the secretary general of the UN to take up in the Security Council the issue of what he called excesses committed by security forces against civilian population in Dera Bugti and Kohlu.

At a press conference at the MPA hostel on Tuesday, he alleged that since July 2, jet planes and helicopters had been bombing Dera Bugti and Kohlu areas and killing innocent people.

He accused troops of dropping bombs on civilians and police of arresting hundreds of youths from Quetta, Khuzdar and Turbat over the past three days.

Mr Kachkol, who was accompanied by Balochistan National Party’s deputy parliamentary leader Akhtar Hussain Lango, claimed that 140 people had been dumped in two small rooms of Sariab police station.

He said the United Nation and the European Union should take notice of the situation. He said sons of the soil were being treated like animals, but human rights organisations were doing nothing to protect their constitutional rights.