QUETTA, Jan 3: Balochistan National Party (Mengal) leader Senator Sana Baloch said on Monday that the government had done nothing to provide employment to 16,000 graduates in the province and cautioned that denial of jobs to the youth might force them to anti-social acts.

Speaking to agriculture graduates and engineers on a token hunger strike in front of the press club, he accused the Gwadar port management of recruiting youths from areas outside Balochistan.

He lamented that 16,000 graduates had been jobless for three years but the anti-Balochistan rulers were least worried about their plight. Sana Baloch said the government made tall claims about the large projects but the factual position was that those had been initiated to adjust youths from Punjab and Karachi at the cost of local population.

He claimed that provincial cabinet members and officials were getting land allotted to themselves in Gwadar to sell that at high prices as commercial plots. He said Balochistan was richer in resources than other provinces but its people were the poorest citizens of the country.

He said the basic reason for the discrimination was that the Baloch did not have political power to make policies for the benefit of the natives. He said the Baloch would not allow the usurpers to loot the resources of the province or impose large development projects on it to facilitate Punjab.