Nawab Aslam Raisani said the federal govt had rejected the scrapping of the Gwadar Deep Sea Port and Reko Dik project agreements. But, he said, the Balochistan govt would not allow any agreement which undermined the rights of the people. - File photo
QUETTA Chief Minister Nawab Aslam Raisani has accused the Frontier Corps of running a parallel government in Balochistan.

In a statement issued here on Wednesday, the chief minister said that FC's attitude had harmed the ongoing reconciliation process and, as a result, the situation had worsened.

“The FC has established a government paralled to the provincial government,” he said.

He urged the federal government to direct law-enforcement agencies in Balochistan to work for normalising the situation and strengthening the reconciliation process.

The federal government, he said, should realise the gravity of the situation. Otherwise, he warned, it would go from bad to worse and he would not be responsible for that.

Meanwhile, a statement issued here on Wednesday by a spokesman for the FC said that the force had nothing to do with the killing of BSO activists.

“No FC personnel were deployed when the BSO rally was fired upon,” the spokesman said.

He welcomed a judicial inquiry into the killing of BSO activists.

Nawab Raisani said the killing would be investigated by a judge of the Balochistan High Court.

He said there was nothing in the Balochistan package to be lauded because there was nothing important in it.

The chief minister said that bureaucrats in Islamabad were the biggest obstacle to implementing the government's decisions pertaining to Balochistan.

He said the forces which wanted to sabotage the process of reconciliation had to be discouraged.

Nawab Raisani said the federal government had rejected the scrapping of the Gwadar Deep Sea Port and Reko Dik project agreements. But, he said, the Balochistan government would not allow any agreement which undermined the rights of the people of Balochistan.

“This response from the federal government strengthens the elements who say that the centre is not interested in giving rights to the people of Balochistan,” he said.

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