GWADAR: National Party (NP) president Dr Abdul Malik Baloch has said that his party wants the country to become a real welfare state because states could not remain intact with the policy of repression.

All ways that lead to interference in the Constitution should be closed forever and NP fully supports the special court’s judgement in the high treason case against former military dictator retired Gen Pervez Musharraf, he added.

Speaking at a press conference on Saturday after conclusion of a policy convention jointly organised by Mir Ghous Bakhsh Bizenjo Research Centre and Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development and Transparency in the port city of Gwadar, he said that over 60 central and provincial leaders of his party from across the country attended the convention.

The two-day convention discussed implementation of the 18th Amendment, empowering women, making Pakistan a welfare state and improving education, agriculture and transport.

Dr Baloch said that if it came to power the NP would implement its policy otherwise it would continue its struggle for implementation of the approved policy draft.

Published in Dawn, December 22nd, 2019