QUETTA, April 20: The four-party Baloch Alliance and Baloch Students Organization have threatened action against the arrest of political workers if they are not freed immediately. Speaking at a joint press conference in the press club on Wednesday, Senator Sana Baloch of the Balochistan National Party-Mengal, Senator Amanullah Kanrani of the Jamhoori Watan Party and MPA Mir Jan Muhammad Buledi of the National Party said the arrests were illegal.

Reading out a written statement on behalf of the four-party alliance, Sana Baloch accused the intelligence agencies, paramilitary forces and police of excesses. He said houses of the workers affiliated to the nationalist parties had been raided and their families insulted.

He blamed the law enforcement agencies for torturing the arrested political workers who had been playing role in the Baloch national movement.

The alliance leader said dozens of members of the Baloch nationalist parties and Baloch Students Organization were in jail for a long time, but neither they had been produced before the court nor allowed to meet their family members in custody.

Sana Baloch said ‘the anti-people’ rulers had turned attentions towards educational institutions by handing over them to security forces. They wanted to suppress the students backing the Baloch national movement.

In reply to a question, he claimed that Baloch nationalist groups believed in democracy and legal struggle to strengthen constitutional institutions, but the rulers wanted to settle political issues by power.

Leaders of different factions of the BSO were present on the occasion.