QUETTA, Sept 20: A grand jirga of Baloch tribes convened by the Khan of Kalat, Mir Suleman Daud, will be held in Kalat on Thursday. All Baloch tribal sardars in Balochistan, Sindh and Punjab have been invited to the jirga which will discuss the situation in the province with special reference to the killing of former governor Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti in Kohlu area in a military operation.

The Khan of Kalat will preside over the grand jirga said to be the first of its kind in 100 years.

Sources said a large number of sardars would attend the jirga and arrangements had been completed for the event.

The government has made special security arrangements for the occasion.

Meanwhile, water supply to the Kalat township was disrupted by a bomb blast in the pumping station of the public health engineering department, blowing up the station’s generator. “It was a home-made bomb planted with a timer,” police sources said.