QUETTA, July 15: Jamhoori Watan Party secretary-general Senator Agha Shahid Hasan Bugti has condemned the arrest of his younger brother Bilal Bugti and Mir Murtaza Bugti, executive officer of the PPL and the nephew of Nawab Akbar Bugti by the intelligence agency in Karachi on Friday.

In a statement here on Saturday he said that Bilal Bugti was going to offer Juma prayers from his flat in Boat Basin but some individuals in plain clothes in two vehicles picked him up.

Senator Shahid further claimed that later at 9pm the intelligence agency men also arrested Murtaza Bugti, son of late Mir Ahmed Nawaz Bugti and nephew of Nawab Bugti.

The JWP leader said that earlier the intelligence agency had also apprehended party’s vice-president Saleem Baloch, deputy secretary-general Rauf Sasoli and Jamal Bugti.

He said that the victimisation policy of the government against the family members of Nawab Bugti and party workers besides military operation in Dera Bugti and Kohlu was aimed to pressurise the JWP leadership to give up the struggle for the rights of Baloch people.

Senator Shahid while condemning the extra constitutional steps of the government for arresting the innocent citizens without fulfilling the legal procedure cautioned the government that harassment policy could not force the JWP and Baloch masses to bow-down before the dictatorship.