QUETTA, March 4: The Baloch Nationalist Alliance on Friday condemned police for arresting 26 political activists on Thursday night in Killi Qamrani.

Speaking at a press conference at the press club, MPA Akhtar Hussain of the Balochistan National Party (Mengal), Malik Khuda Bakhsh Lango of the Jamhoori Watan Party and Haji Qadir Shahwani of the National Party alleged that police were victimizing the alliance's activists for exposing their excesses in Marri Camp.

They claimed that police on Thursday night entered houses in Killi Qamrani suburb of the city and apprehended 26 members of the BNP-M, the JWP and the NP. They said police had a few days back arrested 60 tribesmen in Marri Camp and registered false cases of seizure of weapons.

They asserted that the arrests in the province were aimed at suppressing the voice of the activists of the nationalist parties that were opposing the large projects in Balochistan.

They accused police of torturing the political workers and not permitting their family members to visit them. They said a meeting of the alliance would be held in a couple of days to determine a course of action against police excesses and harassment. They demanded release of all the activists arrested in Killi Qamrani and Marri Camp and an end to unlawful actions against the alliance.