QUETTA: Lawyers protest against ‘excesses’ in Balochistan
By Our Correspondent
QUETTA, May 6: The lawyers have boycotted court proceedings all over Balochistan on Saturday in response to a call of the Baloch Bar Association to protest against what it called the government’s oppressive policies and excesses in the province.
The lawyers did not appear before the courts in the city on Saturday.
Speaking at a press conference at the Quetta Press Club, Baloch Bar Association chairman Sadiq Raisani, thanked the lawyers' for boycotting the courts against the extra-constitutional acts of the government in the province.
He said that lawyers also boycotted the proceedings of courts in Mastung, Kalat, Khuzdar, Hub, Panjgur, Turbat, Sibi and Dera Murad Jamali
He alleged that hundreds of political activists had been arrested and false cases being registered against Baloch political leaders, lawyers' and students.
Sadiq Raisani appealed to the United Nations, International Jurists Commission and UN Human Rights Commission to take notice of the violation of fundamental rights and excesses by the government in Balochistan.
HUNGER STRIKE: Members of the Balochistan National Party (Mengal) observed a token hunger strike as a mark of protest against military operation, arrests of political workers, establishment of cantonments and mega projects.
Protestors set up a camp outside the local press club on Saturday and observed the strike from morning till evening.
Participants included the party’s labour secretary Agha Hasan Baloch, members of the executive committee Razzak Lango, Ghulam Nabi Marri, Malik Majid Kakar, Ghulam Rasool Mengal, Ahmed Nawaz Baloch, Mohinuddin Lehri, Comrade Rehmat, Dr Tahir, Shah Nawaz and PPP’s provincial secretary Tahir Hazara.
Protestors accused the government of trying to detain and poison Sardar Akhtar Mengal after the killing of Nawab Akbar Bugti, adding that thousands of Baloch youths were being tortured by secret agencies in Karachi prison.
They vowed to continue their struggle against the usurpers to protect the province’s coast and its resources and said that oppression could not suppress their political struggle.
