KARACHI, July 23: The National Party has called for unity among all democratic and nationalist parties for a decisive movement to rid the country of the dictatorial regime and establish a real democratic system ensuring sovereign rights of all people and federating units of the country.

This was stated by NP Secretary-General Mir Hasil Bizenjo while talking to party workers in Karachi after his return from London.

Mr Bizenjo said time had come to set aside our differences and direct our energies towards this single goal, which could only be attained by joint efforts.

He argued that the democratic movement had suffered a lot due to disunity among democratic forces in the country. Baloch nationalist forces struggling for sovereign rights of the Baloch people were ready to play their due role in dislodging the dictatorship in the country and establishing a democratic order, he said.

The Baloch leader held the Islamabad establishment responsible for creating anarchy by concentrating unlimited powers in one hand and denying smaller units of their right to self-governance and economic resources.

He alleged that the rulers were planning to uproot Baloch from their native lands and promoting tribal feuds in Balochistan by directly involving itself in the internal disputes of the tribes. It was not the job of the army to settle tribal disputes and political as well as economic issues, he said.

Mr Bizenjo said his party had repeatedly pointed out that a military operation would in no way solve any problem and subsequent events had proved it correct.

Let the representatives of people elected in a free and fair election take charge of the province, he observed.

He rejected Islamabad’s claim as propaganda that it was taking action in Balochistan to establish the writ of the government in the troubled areas, saying that army action in Balochistan and elsewhere in the country had proved that the government wanted to strengthen its “dictatorial rule” through brute force.

Regretting that the country had suffered greatly due to the ill-advised policies of the establishment, the NP leader urged all the democratic forces to unite for an effective movement against the “corrupt and dictatorial regime.”