KARACHI, Aug 7: Leader of the Opposition in the Balochistan Assembly Kachkol Ali, who is also a central leader of the National Party, has ruled out the possibility of his party’s joining the provincial government, and warned that such reports are being circulated by the government to break the nationalists’ unity.

Talking to Dawn before leaving the city for Gwadar on Monday, he deplored that the government, after failing to achieve its objectives through the ongoing military operation in Balochistan, had resorted to plotting a divide nationalist forces in that province. He ridiculed the claim that the resistance movement in Balochistan was subsiding, and said that the latest events contradicted the government’s claim.

The NP leader was of the view that the government had failed even to achieve its primary objective of subjugating Baloch people by force on the pretext of establishing its writ. This had also proved that no government could establish its writ with the might of weapon.

He said that the NP, being a progressive nationalist party, would in no way compromise on the rights of Baloch people. And being a part of the Pakistan Oppressed Nations Movement (Ponam) and also the four-party Baloch Alliance, it would continue its struggle for the restoration of Baloch people’s constitutional rights.

Mr Ali categorically stated that NP would never think of betraying the nationalist leadership and those who had long been fighting the “brutal war imposed by the rulers in Islamabad to make Balochistan its colony and to plunder its natural resources.” He said that the rulers’ designed had now fully exposed.

He pointed out that there were five NP members in the 19-strong opposition in the Balochistan Assembly, “but even if we are offered to run the whole cabinet, we will not become a part of the government, which is involved in the killings of Baloch people in Dera Bugti and Kohlu areas.”

In response to a question, Mr Ali said he was visiting Gwadar along with other members of a committee constituted by the government to probe into the alleged land irregularities in that district.