JACOBABAD, Sept 4: Sindh National Front chairman Mumtaz Ali Bhutto has condemned the killing of Nawab Akbar Bugti and termed it an act of shame. He was talking to reporters at the residence of Akram Abro, member of central executive committee of the front, here on Monday.
Commenting on the Balochistan situation, Mumtaz Ali Bhutto said there was an indirect governor’s rule in the province.
The British had been cruel, but they had taken care of the rights of local people. They ensured justice and peace, but now the rights of common people were not safe and corruption was increasing every day, he added.
In the interiors of Sindh, he said, there was the rule of landlords and in Karachi that of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement.
He said that Sindhis were in more trouble than the Baloch because Sindh was rich in minerals and natural gas, but Sindhis were very poor.
He said that in this particular situation, Sindhis were with their Baloch brothers.
Referring to resignations of parliamentarians of the Balochistan National Party, he said they had taken a bold step in the face of violation of the rights of the people in the country by the government.
He said the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal and Alliance for the Restoration for Democracy were saying that they would submit resignations, but they had not taken the step.
The military, he said, could not continue its rule over the country with the only support of landlords and corrupt people of society.
He said that without participation of common people, there would be no good governance in the country.
KILLED: Armed persons killed a man over a matrimonial dispute in village Shafi Mohammad Chachar in the Ghotki district.
Reports reaching here said a group of armed persons entered the village on Saturday night, barged into the house of Din Mohammad Chachar and opened indiscriminate fire, killing his son Mohammad Murad Chachar, 40, on the spot and fled.
DACOIT KILLED: An armed dacoit was killed and two policemen, including a SHO were injured, in an encounter in Shikarpur on Sunday.
According to police sources, a party of the Lakhidar police was on routine patrol when a group of dacoits hiding in the area opened fire on the police. The police returned the fire and killed a dacoit. Other criminals fled.
SHO Waseem Raza and ASI Fidaullah Bhayo were injured in the encounter.
Later, the body of unidentified dacoit and injured policemen were shifted to the civil hospital, Shikarpur.