QUETTA, March 17: Pakistan Workers’ Party has called for immediate arrest of the killers of the party’s leader, Nasrullah Kakar, and threatened to block highways connecting Balochistan with Punjab and Sindh if the culprits were not arrested immediately.

Nasrullah Kakar was assassinated on March .

PWP’s vice-chairman Mir Mohammad Aslam Shahwani was addressing a press conference here at the press club on Friday.

He said that the assassins were on the loose and the police seemed to be least bothered about arresting them.

Activists of the PWP staged a demonstration outside the press club and chanted slogans against police and the killers of Nasrullah Kakar.

Mir Shahwani said that terrorists had also killed party’s Kalat president Abdul Khaliq Mengal and Maulana Elahi Bakhsh but their killers were still not apprehended.

The PWP leader accused the nationalists of assassinating the party’s leader and said that the murdered leaders were staunch supporters of the government’s development programme.

He said that the party workers had waited peacefully for 17 days, hoping that the killers of Nasrullah Kakar would be arrested but it seemed that the party was left with no option but to block Quetta-Karachi and Quetta-Pishin highways.