DERA GHAZI KHAN, Jan 27: Former MNA and Mazari chief Mir Balakh Sher Mazari wants the government to demarcate the provincial border between the Punjab and Balochistan.

“This is one of the reasons of tension between the Bugtis and Mazaris,” he told Dawn by phone from Islamabad.

The ex-caretaker PM said the Bugti outlaws, by exploiting this (no demarcation) issue, had caused lawlessness in the area.

“There is no tribal war between us. The gas pipeline explosions are the result of complete lawlessness caused by the constant infiltration of the outlaws into the Mazari area,” he said.

He maintained that neither the provincial nor federal governments had taken notice of the alarming situation in Mazari Goth.

He suggested the formation of an inter-tribal jirga to settle disputes between the two tribes.

He again claimed that it was not a tribal feud but anarchy created by the Bugti outlaws due to the negligence of administration of Kashmor, Rajanpur and Dera Bugti.