QUETTA, Oct 4: PPP Parliamentarians vice-chairman and other leaders of the party have announced that the PPP was against the restoration of Sardari system and said that those elements which were raising slogans of an independent Balochistan wanted to impose the Sardari system on the people.

In a joint statement issued here on Wednesday, former federal minister Mir Baz Mohammad Khetran and Ghulam Akbar Lasi, ex-provincial minister Mir Sadiq Umrani and the party’s executive committee member Javed Ahmed Khan stated that the party did not believe in the Sardari system.

They asserted that former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, ex-governor and Khan of Kalat, the late Mir Ahmed Yar Khan, Chief of Sarawan the late Nawab Ghous Bakhsh Raisani and chief of Jhalawan the late Sardar Dauda Khan Zarakzai had on April 8, 1974, announced abolition of the Sardari system.

They further said that the party strictly abided by the decision to liberate the oppressed people from the clutches of Sardari domination, adding that the PPP would not allow making people slaves in the Sardari system. PPP Parliamentarian leaders claimed that the people did not want a Sardari system and believed in progress and welfare of the masses.

They said that elements in the party who were trying to restore the Sardari system should do the job from their own platform instead of using the name of the revolutionary party.

They vowed to continue the struggle in Balochistan against capitalists, feudal lords and Waderas, an said that raising the slogan of independent Balochistan was a conspiracy to keep the people slaves to retain their exploitative system on people.