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QUETTA, May 8: Balochistan Chief Minister Jam Mir Mohammad Yousaf has ruled out any possibility of military operation in Dera Bugti and denied reports in this regard.
“The government has no plan to conduct military operation in Dera Bugti,” Jam Yousaf said while speaking to newsmen after inaugurating literacy centres for Balochistan police here on Thursday.
However, he said the government would take action against criminals involved in dacoities, robberies and killings. Frontier Corps’ contingents were sent to the area for curbing the activities of criminals as the provincial government had not enough police and levies force, he added.
“We are short of police force while the Reserve police is not trained according to the requirement,” the chief minister said, adding that people were being killed in the area, therefore the NWFP government was obliged to take steps against the criminals involved in such activities.
INAUGURAL CEREMONY: Earlier, speaking on the inauguration of the literacy centres at Police Lines, Chief Minister Jam Mir Mohammad Yousaf said the government was determined to develop a civilized and democratic society, for which the supremacy of law would be ensured at any cost and a change would also be brought in the attitude of law enforcing agencies.
The chief minister held previous governments responsible for not promoting education in their tenures, which he said resulted in backwardness of Balochistan.
He said people of Balochistan could prove their capabilities in various sectors if they were provided with educational facilities.
About the role of police, the chief minister blamed former governments for using police force for their personal political interests. It was police’s responsibility to serve the people, arrest lawbreakers and fully provide protection to the peace loving citizens in a civilized society, he observed.
He said that owing to the wrong policies of former rulers the force could not fulfil its responsibilities, which shattered the confidence of the people in the police.
For changing the situation, he said, the government had introduced police reforms and now non-formal educational institutions were being opened for the police force.
Balochistan IGP Dr Shoaib Suddle also spoke on the occasion and informed that 35 per cent police officials including officers were illiterate in district police while this ratio in Balochistan Reserve Police (BRP) was 75 per cent, which he said was the main hurdle in the implementation of police reforms.
Non-formal Education Director Irfanullah Khan said on the occasion that 300 such education centres had been established this year, in which 12,000 men and women obtained education.
