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It’s too late to talk to Bugti
It is too late for the government to offer Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti another invitation for negotiation because he has defiantly spurned all offers for peaceful talks, said Governor Owais Ahmed Ghani. In an exclusive interview to Daily Times at the Governor’s Secretariat on Thursday, Ghani said that Balochistan did not belong to a handful of sardars and nawabs. “The government believes in taking the middle-class, educated majority of the province into confidence regarding all development plans,” he said, adding that there are no contacts between the government and Akbar Bugti. He said if Bugti is sincere with Balochistan and his people he should give up weapons and surrender. “Akbar Bugti would be given amnesty because of his old age,” said Ghani.
That didn't stop him from running a campaign of murders, intimidation, and extortion, did it?
The governor said that most tribesmen had realised that their chiefs were fighting for their own interests. This realisation, he added, had prompted a large number of tribesmen to surrender to the government. Ghani said the government had evidence that some foreign countries were assisting the Baloch sardars in creating unrest in the province. Ghani refused to comment on suspected Indian involvement in the Balochistan crisis. He said the Gwadar Port will be inaugurated soon after the construction work is finished.
Posted by: Fred 2006-07-07
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