QUETTA: The Jamhoori Watan Party (JWP), the banned Baloch Students Organisation Azad (BSO-A) and the Baloch Republican Party (BRP) have accused security forces of carrying out a military operation in Sui and Dera Bugti and said that political movements cannot be suppressed through use of force.

The nationalist organisations, in separate statements issued on Wednesday, rejected a government claim that no military operation was being conducted. The government was trying to mislead people, they said.

The JWP alleged that the government was pursuing the policies of military dictator Pervez Musharraf, adding that security forces had torched hundreds of houses and detained scores of innocent people. Several women and children were injured during the operation, it said.

The BRP appealed to the United Nations and international human rights organisations to take notice of the alleged killings of Baloch people in the military operation, particularly in Sui and Dera Bugti.

The BSO-A said the military operation had been intensified because the government had failed to deliver. It further claimed that so far 18,000 Baloch people had either been kidnapped or gone missing with 1,500 mutilated bodies dumped and 169 recovered from mass graves in Khuzdar.

The three organisations sought an immediate end to the alleged military action against innocent people.