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QUETTA, Sept 29: Leader of opposition in Balochistan Assembly Kachkol Ali Baloch has said that the provincial government would again table a resolution in the provincial assembly session on Oct 5 asking President Musharraf to retain the post of army chief.
In a statement issued here on Wednesday, the opposition leader alleged that this time PML, the major coalition partner, would use government money to seek MPAs' support by sending some of them to perform Umra and others on a trip to the United States.
Mr Kachkol asserted that the Jam government was facing serious financial problems and it had already taken a Rs9 billion overdraft from the State Bank of Pakistan. Even then, the government wanted to use public money to gain votes for the passage of the resolution.
The opposition leader said that people of Balochistan were interested in the resolution of their problems and to gain their just rights from the federal government but the provincial government's main concern was to appease military generals by tabling a resolution in favour of President Musharraf.
He expressed the hope that the provincial assembly members would neither fall in the government trap nor accepts bribes to endorse the anti-people resolution.
WATER SUPPLY: The residents of the Wahdat and GOR colonies have been deprived of water after the Quetta Electricity Supply Company's decision to suspend supply to government departments because of non-payment of dues.
Qesco has disconnected supply to the water pumps in the colonies, which are supervized by the maintenance wing of the communications and works department. The inhabitants have been denied water supply for four days.
People in 600 government servants' quarters in the colonies depend on water supplied by tube-wells managed by the department and the disconnection has forced them to rely on private tankers at high prices.
Qesco authorities claimed that the provincial government had paid 23 per cent of the dues against its departments and the disconnection had been made on directives of the Water and Power Development Authority chairman to recover arrears from consumers. The communications and works department says the provincial government has not releases funds for payment of the dues.
DEATH SENTENCE: The anti-terrorism court, Nasirabad, on Tuesday awarded capital punishment to three men in a murder case and acquitted one due to lack of evidence.
Judge Mohammad Ismail awarded death penalty to Kalo Khan, Mohammad Murad and Arsal when the prosecution proved that they had killed police head constable Abdul Sattar on Aug 19, 2003, in Jaffarabad. The court acquitted Chala Khan as the prosecution failed to prove charges against him.
ACTION DEMANDED: Jafaria Alliance Pakistan chief Senator Abbas Kameli said the other day that a demonstration would be held in front of the parliament building in Islamabad if the Balochistan government failed to eliminate within a month the network of terrorists who had killed hundreds of people here.
The senator said at a press conference that the provincial government had failed to apprehend the terrorists. He said the terrorists had struck thrice in the provincial capital during a month and killed Syed Buhral Shah, Prof Atiqul Hasan and three policemen but the law enforcement agencies had failed to arrest them.
He said that the chief minister had assured people in a hospital on Sept 10 that the murderers of Buhral Shah and Atiqul Hasan would be arrested in three days but the government had failed to fulfil the commitment. He said terrorists were attacking a community in the city without any fear. He said those terrorists who had been arrested should be punished at the earliest.
