Expressing concern over the role secret agencies have played in Balochistan, Jamhoori Watan Party (JWP) and Jamia Naeemia leaders blamed them for being the root cause of separatist tendencies in the province and demanded an independent high level enquiry into missing persons and dead bodies, the halting of the military operation and handing over the province’s charge to the civil government.
JWP president and son of slain Baloch elder Nawab Akbar Bugti, Shah Zain Bugti, and Jamia Naeemia principal Allama Raghib Naeemi were united on the stance while discussing the political situation, especially Balochistan, at Jamia Naeemia on Thursday.
Sources said Shahzain Bugti made clear no talks could be held with the government unless Islamabad made serious confidence building measures to create trust among Baloch leaders and people. He said that the federal government had only paid lip service to the Baloch and less that one per cent of the much talked about Balochistan Package had been delivered. He said the government’s claims that military had been recalled from Balochistan and work on three proposed cantonments had been halted were false.
Before the APC proposed by Prime Minister Gillani, Shahzain endorsed the pre conditions set by PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif that the first government must arrest the killers of Akbar Bugti and recover all 13,000 missing Baloch people. Shahzain, however, condemned the murders of Punjabis in Balochistan but said reports suggested some of the killed were allegedly working for the army.
