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QUETTA, Jan 30: Some 200 members of the Kalpar sub-clan of Bugti tribe returned to their hometown Sui on Monday after several years, an official said here. The district coordination officer (DCO) in Dera Bugti, Abdul Samad Lasi, said that a convoy carrying the first group of returning tribesmen led by Jalal Khan Kalpar had arrived in Sui on Monday morning.
The DCO said that five rockets were fired on the convoy as it entered Dera Bugti from Kashmore. No one was hurt in the attack.
The government has arranged accommodation for them in the PPL quarters, Mr Lasi said. Members of the Kalpar sub-clan had left their homeland due to the excesses of the chieftain of the tribe and took shelter in different areas of Sindh and Punjab, the DCO said.
He said the displaced tribesmen had sought the government’s protection to return to their homeland and stated that the government was bound under the law to safeguard the interests of its citizens.
The district official said that although he did not know exactly how many Kalpar clansmen had migrated from Sui, several thousand people who had fled their homes would be resettling in the area in a few days.
Asked where the returning tribesmen would live, he said the government would keep them in the quarters of the PPL company till their homes were rebuilt.
MASURI TRIBESMEN: The DCO also confirmed that a group of Masuris had also reached Bekar via Rakhni from Multan and Rahimyar Khan led by Mir Tariq Masuri. The remaining Masuri tribesmen will also return soon, he said.
Commenting on the return of a group of Kalpars to Sui, a spokesman for Jamhoori Watan Party, Agha Shahid Hasan Bugti, said that internal conflicts between Bandulani and other clans of Kalpars would put the security of the Sui gas plant at stake.
The spokesman said that in the ongoing fighting between tribesmen and security forces in Dera Bugti town the Sui gas plant remained safe because the former made not attempt to damage the gas plant.
