SUKKUR, Oct 19: Jamhoori Watan Party leader Rauf Sasoli has alleged that the army is trying to occupy resources of Balochistan and 'so-called' bomb blasts are aimed at defaming the Baloch people and creating a pretext for an army operation against them.

Talking to newsmen at the press club here on Monday, he categorically denied a press statement attributed to him about a proposed meeting of JWP chief Nawab Akbar Bugti with President Gen Pervez Musharraf.

He said: "Nawab Bugti is the commander of the Baloch nation and he will never meet the president" and added in the same breath that Mr Bugti was a political leader and politicians could meet rulers anytime and there was no harm in it.

However, he insisted that the JWP chief's meeting the president was not possible as he was trying to occupy resources of the Baloch people and wanted to launch an army operation against them.

PPP: People's Party Parliamentarians MNA Syed Khursheed Ahmed Shah has said that if President Gen Pervez Musharraf does not quit one of the two posts held by him till December 31, the ARD and MMA will launch a joint movement against him.

Talking to newsmen here on Monday, he said that if the president, on the advice of his incapable advisors, dissolved the National Assembly, the Alliance for Restoration of Democracy and Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal would jointly contest the general elections.

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