QUETTA, Sept 1: Balochistan’s main militant organisations — the Baloch Liberation Army, Baloch Republican Army and Baloch Liberation Front — have decided to suspend their activities for an indefinite period.

The decision was announced by Beebargh Baloch and Sirbaz Baloch, spokesmen for the BLA and BRA, while talking to journalists on satellite phones on Monday night.

“All the three militant organisations have jointly decided to suspend their resistance movement for an indefinite period,” they said.

They denied that the decision was the result of any deal. “We want to tell the Baloch people and the world that we can stop the movement any time and can restart it whenever we decide to do so.”

They said the organisations were united and their destination was the same.

The spokesmen said that during the suspension of the movement the three organisations would review the overall situation in the province and if the military operation and construction of cantonments were not stopped they would respond with full force.

They warned that anyone found involved in spying against the Baloch movement would be finished.