QUETTA, Jan 25: The National Party has condemned the killing of a leader of the party in Dir area of the NWFP and a life attempt on another leader in Sindh and announced that the party will continue its struggle for the rights of the oppressed nations.

Addressing a public meeting on Baldia road in Hub on Sunday, party leaders paid tribute to the sacrifice of Jamil Lala who was abducted a few days ago in Dir and found murdered on Saturday night.

They regretted that another leader of the party, Rahim Bakhsh Jaffery, had been injured in an armed attack at Shikarpur on Jan 12.

Senator Dr Malik Baloch, chief of the National Party, secretary-general Mir Hasil Bizenjo, provincial president Dr Yasin Baloch, BSO chairman Wahid Baloch and other leaders criticised the management of industries in Hub town allegedly for ignoring local people in jobs.

They warned that there would be a reaction against the discriminatory policy if the industries were reluctant to provide jobs to local people.

They accused the government of pursuing the anti-Baloch policies of the previous government which had started a military operation in the province in which hundreds of people were killed and hundreds others were either put behind bars or they were missing for the past four years.

They said that the use of the state apparatus would not suppress the Baloch political movement.