November 23, 2007	Friday	Ziqa’ad 12, 1428

THATTA, Nov 22: The Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz chairman Bashir Khan Qureshi on Thursday termed the killing of Baloch leader Mir Balach Marri ‘assassination’ and an irreparable loss of the Baloch people.

Talking to journalists at Thatta sessions court where he had come with party leader, Dr Niaz Kalani and 35 other activists, to appear in a sedition case, Mr Qureshi said that the assassination of Balach Marri after the killing of Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti had compelled the nationalists to think about adopting extreme options.

He said the system had strengthened the feudal lords who were looting and plundering the national wealth. The elections would yield no positive results under emergency.

Our Larkana correspondent adds: The Sindh Council of Jhamoori Wattan Party (JWP) on Thursday announced three-day mourning in Sindh for the killing of Mir Balach Marri.

A meeting of the council chaired by Mohammed Hanif demanded that the government should halt the ongoing operation in Balochistan and called for observing a strike on Nov 24 in Larkana.

The meeting appealed to people to take part in the strike to register their protest over the Baloch leader’s murder.

The Sindh Taraqqi Pasand Party (coordination committee) also condemned the killing of Mir Balach Marri.

The party’s central coordinator, Gulzar Soomro, blamed the government for the ‘murder’ and termed it part of a conspiracy to crush national movements.