Baloch leader quits MQM in protest

Published September 4, 2006

QUETTA, Sept 3: Waqar Ahmed Baloch, provincial organiser of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), has resigned from the party in protest against what he termed silence of the MQM high command over Nawab Akbar Bugti’s killing.

Talking to newsmen at Quetta Press Club on Sunday, Mr Baloch said the MQM had held a roundtable conference in Quetta, assuring the Baloch people that if a military operation was launched in Balochistan, the MQM would part ways with the government.

Now that the time had come, the party high command was only issuing verbal threats through newspapers, he said.

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