Ameer of Jamaat e Islami, Syed Munawar Hasan, has impressed upon the federal government to make serious efforts to tide the situation over in Balochistan, the largest and richest province of the country.
In a statement on Friday, he said that the tyranny and injustice of the federal government had caused deep hatred among the Baloch people, and a situation of revolt had been created there. This had provided the United Nations an excuse to interfere and send over a so-called delegation to ascertain the situation. Munawar said that Baloch nationalists had given the government another chance by expressing full confidence in the Supreme Court and it should avail this opportunity in the best possible manner. He said, the abductions for ransom had become a profitable business in Balochistan but the efforts of the judicial Commission on the missing persons hadn’t achieved much. The Supreme Court, he said, had taken a bold stand and expressed hope that the apex court would take the matter to its logical end. He said that serious efforts should be made to trace the missing persons, the right of the Baloch people over the resources of the province must be accepted, gas royalty amounting to Rs 600 billion should be paid to them and troops should be recalled to the barracks to restore normalcy.
