April 10, 2008	Thursday	Rabi-us-Sani 3, 1429

QUETTA, April 9: The proscribed Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) has rejected the government’s offer for talks, saying it was not ready even to consider it.

Talking to Dawn by a satellite phone on Wednesday, BLA spokesman Beebarg Baloch said: “We regard the government’s offer for talks as its defeat because previously it was not ready even to recognise the existence of the BLA.”

He said that three pillars of what he called genocide of the Baloch nation -establishment, the army and the Musharraf-led system -- were intact and the government could not hoodwink the Baloch people.

He said that two former governors of Balochistan, a chief minister, a provincial minister and a federal minister were on the hit-list of the BLA.—Staff Correspondent