QUETTA, Aug 26: Opposition leader in the provincial assembly Kachkol Ali Baloch has accused police of surrounding the central office of the National Party, and not allowing the party member into the premises to sabotage the shutter-down strike called for Friday.

Speaking at a press conference at the Press Club on Thursday night, he said that a meeting of the Baloch alliance of four parties could not be held to determine the strategy for tomorrow's strike, due to deployment of police near the NP office.

Kachkol Baloch also strongly condemned the provincial government's undemocratic action for issuing bogus statements on behalf of traders, the chamber of commerce and transporters opposing the shutter-down strike.

He stressed that the government must respect the aspirations of the Baloch masses opposing the military operation and establishment of cantonments and maintained that four-Baloch parties alliance would issue a call for a wheel-jam strike if the government did not abandon the projects.

He told the government that harassing political workers would complicate the existing tense situation in Balochistan, and urged the business community to observe the shutter-down strike on Friday against the government's anti-people policies.

Responding to a question, the opposition leader said that dialogues with the government and call for strike were part of a democratic process and that nationalists would not give up the struggle against the excesses of oppressors, to protect the national rights of Balochistan's peoples.

TEACHERS PROTEST: The Balochistan School Teacher's Union members observed a token hunger strike demanding that the provincial government should implement the 15 per cent allowance announced by the federal government, that was already granted in other three provinces.