QUETTA, Sept 16: The Jamhoori Watan Party’s central executive committee on Saturday decided to continue its political struggle within the federation to achieve full provincial autonomy in accordance with people’s aspirations.

The committee held its first meeting after the killing of in its party leader Nawab Akbar Bugti under the chairmanship of JWP’s vice-president Mir Manzoor Hussain Khoso.

The meeting, which lasted seven hours, adopted several resolutions, including one that termed Nawab Bugti’s killing history’s most serious tragedy.

Addressing a press conference here on Saturday night, JWP’s information secretary Amanullah Kanrani read out a statement in which the party reiterated its determination to continue its political, constitutional and democratic struggle to achieve sovereign rights on the province’s resources and its coast.

Referring to electing a new leader after Nawab Bugti’s killing, he said that the meeting had decided to defer a decision in this regard till the mourning period for the slain leader was not ended.

He said that it would make a decision in this regard in accordance with the party’s constitution.

The meeting, he said, had condemned Nawab Bugti’s killing and criticised the manner in which his body had been buried.

The executive committee, he said, had called upon the government to facilitate an international medical board, comprising members of human rights commission, to exhume Nawab Bugti’s body to ascertain the cause of death.

The JWP’s executive committee demanded the release of all people arrested by the security forces during the action in Dera Bugti and other parts of the province.