SUKKUR, Feb 25: Balochistan’s nationalist parties have wasted an opportunity by boycotting the elections and pushed the province 20 years back, according to former deputy general secretary of the Jamhoori Watan Party Rauf Khan Sasuli.

Talking to the newsmen at the press club here on Sunday night, he praised Chief of Army Staff Gen Ashfaq Pervaiz Kayani for holding free, fair and transparent elections.

Criticising President Pervez Musharraf, he said that till the last, the president had claimed that the PML-Q would emerge victorious.

He claimed that Balochistan’s nationalist parties would have performed better in parliament, but they had lost this opportunity chance by boycotting the polls.

He said that the PML-Q, which had unleashed worst atrocities on the people of Balochistan, would now represent the people of the province and would also have the opportunity to form the provincial government.