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Bugti s killers should not be spared: Qadir Baloch
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Posted on : 08-02-2010
ISLAMABAD: Former governor Balochistan and ex-corps commander Lt-Gen (retd) Abdul Qadir Baloch on Sunday called for a through probe by a judicial commission into the killing of Nawab Akbar Bugti.
In an interview with The News, Baloch, who was recently declared winner from NA-271 after a gap of almost two years by an election tribunal, said it should also be investigated why it became imperative to target a veteran politician and the charges against former president Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf and the government of that time (of Bugti s killing) should also be looked into.
Whosoever is found guilty must not be spared and given punishment for damaging Pakistan to such level that there is widespread talk of independence in Balochistan, he said. He noted former governor Nawab Akbar Bugti had also talked of the provincial autonomy and in return he was killed and after that the ground situation changed dramatically and the demand of the provincial autonomy turned into winning freedom through an armed struggle.
A commission should probe these events and also there is a dire need to identify exactly what the people of Balochistan want, he said, adding without addressing the fundamental issues, the ongoing alarming situation could not be reversed.
Baloch, who had resigned over differences with the then president Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf over his policies in Balochistan in 2003, doubted the last year s package for his province would change the status quo.
The news and analysis of the package have been making rounds, but this is a joke. It has no answer to the sense of deprivation and neglect that the people of Balochistan are suffering for the last 62 years, he maintained.
The resolution of the Balochistan problem, he pointed out, did not lie in giving more money or a package to the province, but it lied in a constitutional package, envisaging provincial autonomy so that the local people should have control over their own natural resources.
Courtesy : The News
In an interview with The News, Baloch, who was recently declared winner from NA-271 after a gap of almost two years by an election tribunal, said it should also be investigated why it became imperative to target a veteran politician and the charges against former president Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf and the government of that time (of Bugti s killing) should also be looked into.
Whosoever is found guilty must not be spared and given punishment for damaging Pakistan to such level that there is widespread talk of independence in Balochistan, he said. He noted former governor Nawab Akbar Bugti had also talked of the provincial autonomy and in return he was killed and after that the ground situation changed dramatically and the demand of the provincial autonomy turned into winning freedom through an armed struggle.
A commission should probe these events and also there is a dire need to identify exactly what the people of Balochistan want, he said, adding without addressing the fundamental issues, the ongoing alarming situation could not be reversed.
Baloch, who had resigned over differences with the then president Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf over his policies in Balochistan in 2003, doubted the last year s package for his province would change the status quo.
The news and analysis of the package have been making rounds, but this is a joke. It has no answer to the sense of deprivation and neglect that the people of Balochistan are suffering for the last 62 years, he maintained.
The resolution of the Balochistan problem, he pointed out, did not lie in giving more money or a package to the province, but it lied in a constitutional package, envisaging provincial autonomy so that the local people should have control over their own natural resources.
Courtesy : The News
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