ISLAMABAD, June 28: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) has strongly condemned the forcible disembarkation of Jamhoori Watan Party (JWP) Secretary Information Amanullah Kinrani from a PIA flight to prevent him from participating in the ARD moot in London on July 2.

Mr Kinrani had been nominated by JWP President Nawab Mohammad Akbar Khan Bugti to represent the party at the ARD meeting in London for signing the Charter of Democracy.

In a statement, the PPP spokesman said this was a desperate act on the part of the military regime that had become unnerved ever since the Charter of Democracy was agreed to between the two major parties of the ARD.

He said the JWP represented the ARD in Balochistan and as such it was a proof that the JWP wanted a political solution to the problems of Balochistan in particular and that of the country in general.

Denying the JWP the opportunity to play its political role, the regime was denying it the opportunity to be in mainstream national politics and forcing it to adopt non-political means for the resolution of political problems. This can only spell disaster for the federation, he warned.

“The PPP calls upon the military regime not to squeeze the political opposition and immediately allow Amanullah Kinrani to proceed to London for attending the ARD meeting,” the spokesman said.

He said such highhandedness and strong-arm tactics would not deter the ARD from pursuing the Charter of Democracy.