October 07, 2006	Saturday	Ramazan 13, 1427

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QUETTA, Oct 6: Former MPAs of the Balochistan National Party (Mengal) Mir Akbar Mengal and Akhtar Hussain Lango, have filed a petition in the Balochistan High Court challenging inclusion of their names in the exit control list after their resignation from the assembly.

The petitioners have submitted that the federal secretary of the interior division has imposed restrictions on their going abroad and also included their names in the ECL and requested the court to set aside the federal government’s notification.

The petitioners pleaded that the purpose of the government action was to victimise them for resigning from the Balochistan assembly in protest against the killing of Nawab Akbar Bugti.

HUNGER STRIKE: Mir Hazar Khan Marri has said that he and his brothers will go on a hunger strike if their father Mir Misri Khan Marri, principal of the Elementary College of Kalat, who has been arrested by an intelligence agency is not produced before in a court.

Addressing a press conference here on Friday, he said that his father had been picked up on the night of February 2 from a hotel in Dera Ghazi Khan and he had been kept in detention without fulfilling the legal procedure required under the law.

He said that besides his father, Jan Mohammad Marri, Wadera Asghar Marri, Gul Khan Marri, Murad Bakhsh Marri, Ghaffar Lango, Munir Mengal and other detainees should also be released or produced in the court.

TRADERS TO PROTEST: The Anjuman-i-Tajran of the Hazarganji truck-stand has threatened to launch a protest if the government fails to recover a trader of spare parts, Shakir Kohkhar, who was kidnapped on Thursday at gunpoint. The association also expressed concern over the deteriorating law and order situation in the provincial capital.

Speaking at a press conference at the press club on Friday, Mohkamuddin Kakar, president of the association, said that the business community had been badly affected by the recent incident of robbery and kidnapping, adding that the administration and police had failed to protect the citizens.