QUETTA, April 24: Leader of the Opposition in the Balochistan Assembly, Kachkol Ali, has said that people displaced by fighting in Dera Bugti are suffering in the hot weather in Nasirabad and Jaffarabad.

The opposition leader, who is chief of a fact-finding committee formed by Balochistan Assembly speaker to inquire into the conditions under which the displaced people are living, told newsmen after visiting various areas of Nasirabad and Jaffarabad that he feared that many children, women and men might die if they were not helped immediately. MPA Saleem Khosa and Haji Jumma Khan Bugti were also present.

Mr Ali appealed to the government and national and international humanitarian organisations to help the displaced people.

He said the government was not serious in resolving the issue as two members of the committee for its side, Mir Abdul Rehman Jamali and Mir Abdul Ghafoor Lehri, had not joined in the visit to the villages where the displaced people were living.

The committee observed during its visit to Gor Nari, RD-298, Goth Sarkar Khan Bugti and other villages with newsmen that thousands of people who had migrated because of heavy fighting between tribesmen and security forces were facing great difficulties as the government was not providing them assistance.

They had to live in the open without food and other facilities in the hot weather.