November 28, 2006	Tuesday	Ziqa'ad 6, 1427

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QUETTA, Nov 27: The Anjuman-i-Ittehad marri has claimed that security forces on Monday arrested dozens of Marri tribesmen, including students, from New Kahan village in the suburbs of the capital.

A spokesman of the Ittehad said in a statement that security forces had taken into custody dozens of tribesmen during searches of their homes.

The spokesman asserted that most of those arrested were labourers working in the nearby fruit market of Hazarganji but security forces had apprehended them just because they belonged to the Marri tribe.

He claimed that aircraft had bombed areas in Kohistan Marri targeting civilian population. He said 432 people in the area were in army’s custody.

The spokesman said that the Baloch people would continue their struggle against the usurpers and the security forces and intelligence agencies could not suppress their national movement.

DEMONSTRATION: The Baloch Student Organisation staged a demonstration outside the press club condemning what he called atrocities of security forces in Kahan and Dera Bugti.

The protesters holding placards and portraits of the arrested members of the organisation chanted slogans in favour of Baloch fighters.

BSO secretary-general Zakir Majid Baloch said the military operation and arrest of political workers and student leaders would not make the Baloch abandon their struggle.

He said the Baloch youths would fully support nationalist leaders Nawabzada Balaach Marri and Nawabzada Barahamdag Bugti fighting in the mountains of Kohlu and Dera Bugti.

He said the BSO and the fighters in the mountains did not demand provincial autonomy as their struggle was for national rights.

He criticised the Baloch nationalist groups demanding provincial autonomy.

He said the Baloch would not accept development projects at the cost of killing of local people.