QUETTA, Sept 15: An alliance of four Baloch nationalist parties on Tuesday condemned the killing of three women on Sept 9 by Rangers in Dera Bugti area and urged the human rights organizations to take up the issue.

The participants of a meeting of the alliance, presided over by Jamhoori Watan Party Secretary General Agha Shahid Hasan Bugti at Bugti House, rejected the version of the provincial government on the incident.

They urged the government to arrest the Rangers officials involved in killing three innocent women and injuring 12 others. They said the government was making tall claims about development projects while the natives were being eliminated through terrorism.

They asked international human and women's rights organizations to protest against the incident. Former chief minister Mir Hamayun Marri of the JWP, Habib Jalib Baloch of the Balochistan National Party (Mengal) and Abdul Wahid Baloch of the National Party.