QUETTA, Jan 11: The Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party held a demonstration outside the Governor House and the Chief Minister’s Secretariat on Sunday in protest against the killing of a son of a PMAP leader in Qila Abdullah allegedly by Frontier Corps personnel.

Protesters alleged that FC personnel fired on the house of Malik Karam Khan Kakozai on Saturday night, killing his son Mohammad Ali.

The Balochistan National Party (Mengal) also held a demonstration on Sunday against government for making the Gwadar port functional.

Habib Jalib Baloch, the party’s secretary-general who led the rally, said that the port was a conspiracy against the Baloch people to turn them into a minority by settling outsiders in the new city.

He asserted that such projects would change the population ratio against the Baloch people. He said that ‘usurpers’ would never be allowed to play with the destiny of Baloch masses.

Meanwhile, Baloch nationalist parties and student organisations have announced that they would continue their struggle for national rights and said that the present government had not changed the anti-Baloch policy adopted by the previous government.

Addressing a press conference at the press club here, Dr Hakim Lehri, the chairman of the Balochistan National Congress, read out a statement on behalf of the Balochistan National Party (Mengal), National Party, Anjuman Ittehad Marri, Baloch Republican Party, Baloch National Front, Baloch National Movement, Baloch Watan Movement, Baloch Women’s Panel, Baloch Bar Association and the four factions of the Baloch Students Organisation.

It said that a letter had been written to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown to withdraw cases against Nawabzada Hairbiyar Marri and Fayyaz Baloch.

The statement said that the two were political and human rights activists, struggling for the Baloch cause but the British government had implicated them in false cases at the behest of former military ruler Pervez Musharraf.

They urged the British government to withdraw the cases against them and warned that the Baloch people would hold demonstrations in the front of British diplomatic missions in different countries.

The statement said the Baloch nationalist parties knew nothing about the so-called reconciliation policy of the government, adding that they were not interested in meaningless rhetoric.

The statement claimed that the military operation was still under way and Baloch political activists were still being arrested.