QUETTA: Balochistan Assembly member Nawabzada Tariq Khan Magsi, reacting to the government’s decision of withdrawing guards deployed for his personal security, has warned that the government will be held responsible if he is harmed in an incident.

Talking to reporters in his native town Gandawah on Friday, he said that the provincial government was taking revenge by politically victimising him. It was a mere pressurising tactics, he said and questioned how could he attend the assembly session without security guards. He said he saw no justification in registration of a case against him on charges of interference in the working of police.

He said that he went to the Quetta District Jail to meet Nawabzada Gazain Marri without even knowing that the Balochistan High Court had already issued Gazain’s release orders.

However, when the two of them were coming out of the jail premises, a contingent of police reached there and tried to arrest Mr Marri on which his lawyers argued with the police, Mr Magsi added. The police took Mr Marri to Cant Police Station after resolving the issue.

Mr Magsi said that he went home after the re-arrest of Mr Marri and later came to know that a case against him was registered on the charges of interference in police work. He approached the court of law and got protective bail from the Civil Judge 5.

The case was registered at the behest of the provincial government to put pressure on me, he said, adding that the Home Department, in the meantime, ordered withdrawal of security guards, as well.

Published in Dawn, October 14th, 2017