QUETTA, April 14: Jamhoori Watan Party chief Nawab Akbar Bugti has announced that a monument will be built in Dera Bugti in memory of people who lost their lives in the March 17 incident. In a statement issued on re-opening of the Sui-Dera Bugti road, he said a memorial tower would be built and names of the ‘martyrs’ of Dera Bugti would be inscribed, so that the coming generations would remember them as heroes of national rights.

He said the closure or the re-opening of a road was not important; “it is mere reorganization of the front keeping in view the objective conditions. It should not be of any help to the enemy but to tighten the cordon around him. It will widen the area of struggle; it is a change of tactics, making every house and area of the Baloch, instead of a particular place or tribe, dangerous for the enemy. No-one should consider the Baloch an easy prey.”

He said 70 Bugtis were killed in the incident.