DERA MURAD JAMALI: Emir of Jamaat-i-Islami Sirajul Haq has said that the Balochistan Awami Party-led coalition government has failed to resolve people’s problems.

“These rulers have been imposed on the province from somewhere against the wishes of the people who are deprived of basic amenities,” he said, while addressing the participants of a protest sit-in in the Dera Allahyar area of Jaffarabad district on Friday.

He said that lack of true leadership representation in the province was the main reason behind deprivations of the local people and nobody was bothered about it.

“Stop making Balochistan a part of the Great Game,” he said, adding that the enemies of the country were taking advantage of the situation with their eyes on the rich natural resources of the area.

The JI emir said that the federal government had also failed to resolve issues and due to ignorance poverty was rampant in the province where millions of children did not go to school. Balochistan, he said, needed schools, colleges and hospitals and its youths wanted jobs.

He said over 60 per cent population of the province lacked medical facilities and majority had no access to clean drinking water.

The unjust distribution of resources needed to be ended to uplift people and alleviate poverty, he emphasised.

Published in Dawn, March 5th, 2022