QUETTA: Balochistan Chief Minister Nawab Muhammad Aslam Raisani has said that foreign hands are directly involved in the deteriorating law and order situation in Balochistan.

‘The murderer of Balochistan Education Minister Shafiq Ahmed Khan will be exposed soon,’ he told reporters after offering funeral prayers for the PPP minister. He, however, warned foreign players not to fan ethnic differences in Balochistan. Otherwise they would also be engulfed by the fire.

Mr Raisani said that the people using the name of Baloch were neither sincere to the Baloch cause nor with the Baloch masses. He said these elements were promoting a foreign agenda at the cost of innocent people.

The chief minister said Shafiq Ahmed Khan was a true Balochistani who had always struggled for the rights of the people of Balochistan. He made it clear that all Balochs, Pashtoons, Hazaras and settlers living in Balochistan were equal in his eyes and he was determined to serve all communities without any discrimination. Mr Raisani reiterated that killing of innocent people was neither allowed in Islam nor under Baloch traditions.