QUETTA, Nov 26: Balochistan National Party (Mengal) president Sardar Akhtar Mengal has said that law-enforcement agencies have arrested over 350 leaders and workers of the party from different parts of the province to stop long march planned by the BNP.

Speaking at a press conference in Hub town on Sunday, he said the government was scared of BNP-M’s ‘Lashkar-i-Balochistan’ long march from Gwadar to Quetta on Nov 30.

By arresting party leaders and workers, the government wants to sabotage the long march," Sardar Mengal said. However, he added, despite the arrests the march would start according to the programme.

He said the government was aware that thousands of people would take part in the march as they had participated in the long march of the BNP-M after the death of Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti.

He said the government had failed to gather Baloch Sardars for the official jirga convened by the federal government.