QUETTA: Federal Minister for Science and Technology Agha Hassan Baloch of BNP-Mengal has said that joining the government at the centre doesn’t mean the party has abandoned its struggle for the recovery of missing persons and rights of the people of Balochistan.

Speaking at a press conference here on Wednesday along with party leaders Shumila Ismail, Akhtar Hussain Langove, Shakeela Naveed and Musa Baloch, he expressed concern over non-arrest of the killers of the party’s local leader Saeed Ahmed Baloch despite the passage of over two weeks.

He said the deceased was the brother of the party’s central secretary of labour who had been targeted at Qambrani road area, but despite assurance of the chief minister, no progress had been made into the murder case so far.

Mr Baloch said the BNP-M had always raised its voice for resolution of the issues of the missing persons, targeted killings of political workers and throwing of mutilated bodies and it would continue to do so in future also.

“As a federal minister, I ask the IG Police of Balochistan Mohsin Hassan Butt to take immediate steps for the arrest of the killers of Saeed Ahmed Baloch or protests will be held in Quetta from May 25,” he said.

Published in Dawn, May 19th, 2022