QUETTA, Aug 6: Wadera Khan Mohammad Kalpar, chief of the Kalpar sub-section of the Bugti tribe, has appealed to President Musharraf that 4,000 of his tribesmen should be allowed to return to their homeland in Sui town and compensation be paid to the affected people.

He was speaking at a news conference at the press club here on Sunday.

He claimed that the Kalpars were still living in Sukkur, Hyderabad, Kashmore and Rahimyar Khan.

He said that the government was creating hurdles where repatriation of the Kalpars was concerned, adding that they had been forcibly ousted from their homeland in 1998.