QUETTA Aug 31: An all parties conference held in Sarawan House here on Thursday unanimously decided to continue agitation throughout the province till stoppage of military operation in Dera Bugti and Kohlu and handing over of the dead body of Nawab Bugti to his heirs.

The APC was attended by representatives of the ARD, four-party Baloch Alliance, Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party, Awami National Party and Tehreek i Insaf.

The APC reviewed its planning with regard to the wheel-jam and shutter-down strike in the province on Friday.

Later, while speaking at a joint press conference at the press club, Sardar Sanaullah Zehri of the Baloch Alliance said that the conference discussed different aspects of the on-going military operation, recovery of the dead body of Nawab Bugti, resignations from assemblies, civil disobedience, arrests of political workers and the wheel-jam strike.

He said that the APC participants decided to continue protests till stoppage of the military operation, handing over of the dead body of JWP leader to his legal heirs and release of all arrested political activists.

About resignations from assemblies, Mr Zehri said that nationalist political groups decided to quit assemblies. However, they would wait till combined opposition parties decide to submit en-bloc resignations. He said the assemblies had no importance as all powers rested with a military dictator who had made these legislatures subservient to him.

Mr Zehri said APC of Balochistan communicated recommendations to APC of whole Pakistan to launch a civil disobedience movement to oust President Musharraf. He said without a collective struggle, similar to the one launched in sixties against the Ayub dictatorship, individual political groups could not oust the present regime.