QUETTA: Former senator and leader of the Balochistan Na­­t­ional Party (BNP-Men­gal) Nawabzada Lashkari Rai­sani has said the people of the province have been facing terrorism for a long time but no terrorist was arrested and punished by the government, which raises many questions over these incidents.

Speaking at a press conference at his residence here on Sunday, the BNP leader said that when Prime Minister Imran Khan, Inter­ior Minister Sheikh Ra­­shid, the Balochis­tan government and PM’s special assistant Tahir Ashrafi alleged that India was behind the Mach tragedy because an organisation had claimed responsibility for the killings, then why the CTD registered a case against unidentified people. “This contradiction creates doubts,” he said, adding that Balo­ch­istan had been facing such incidents for a long time but none of the masterminds making Balochistan a hub of killings was arrested and punished.

Published in Dawn, January 12th, 2021

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