QUETTA: Opposition Leader in Balochistan Assembly Malik Sikandar has said that the Jam-led coalition government has included no single development scheme proposed by opposition members in the new Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP). He refuted the government’s claim in this regard.

Speaking at a press conference outside the Bijli Road police station along with other members of opposition parties, he said the movement launched against the government would continue till the Jam-led government was toppled because the provincial government was involved in corruption, loot and plunder of provincial wealth and its natural resources.

Says protest will continue till Jam-led govt ousted

He said the ministers who recently addressed a press conference had assured the protesting lawmakers that the government would soon issue a notification for withdrawing the FIR filed against opposition lawmakers, but five days had passed since their assurance and to date the notification had not been issued and opposition lawmakers were staying in the police station.

“We are not bullying anyone and instead are offering arrest to end corruption, commission mafia and anarchy in the province,” Malik Sikandar said.

Sana Baloch of BNP-Mengal also spoke on the occasion and bitterly criticised the government for imposing a ban on media from entering the police station for coverage of the press conference of opposition lawmakers and said that no such ban had been imposed on media in Balochistan.

He termed the ban on media’s entry a violation of the privilege of opposition members. He asked ANP parliamentary leader Asghar Khan Achakzai, “If all is fine in the province then how an important leader of your own party was kidnapped in the province?”

Published in Dawn, July 4th, 2021