QUETTA, Aug 31: Balochistan Chief Minister Jam Mir Mohammad Yusuf said on Tuesday that his government would not allow re-establishment in the province of training camps for subversive activities, that had been eliminated by law-enforcement agencies.

Speaking to trainee police officers of the National Police Academy here, he said the government had eliminated all such camps in Makran. He denied that any military operation had been launched in Balochistan and said the government had taken action against the training camps and the saboteurs and anti-social elements involved in bomb blasts and rocket attacks in the province.

"It is not a military operation," Jam Yusuf told a trainee police officer who asked many questions about the prevailing situation in the province. The chief minister said foreigners were giving training to local people for subversive activities in the camps which were removed by the government.

"Any attempt to re-establish the camps would be foiled," he said. He said he had never accused those opposing development in the province of treason but opposition to the major projects was not in the interest of the province.

He said the process of negotiation had started and a Senate committee had been set up in this regard. He said the government had no political motives behind the establishment of cantonments in the province.

"Establishment of cantonments is the need of the army in view of the country's defence," Chief Minister Yusuf said. The chief minister said that with the construction of the Gwadar port, it would become a hub of industrial, economic and trade activities, that would affect the interests of some neighbouring countries.

Those countries might want to create hurdles in the speedy development of Gwadar and destabilize the law and order situation in Balochistan, he said. He said local people are being used for the purpose.