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No talks with Shujaat, says Bugti's kin |
2005-01-25 |
Baloch leaders will not hold negotiations with Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain or any other figure appointed by the centre, in a situation where thousands of security personnel, with heavy tanks and artillery, were positioned at Nawab Akbar Bugti's hometown of Dera Bugti, Mr Bugti's son-in-law Agha Shahid Bugti said on Monday. Mr Shahid Bugti, who is secretary general of Akbar Bugti's Jamhoori Watan Party, alleged at a press conference at the Press Club here that the rape of the woman doctor of the Sui hospital recently had been a planned act intended to sabotage the negotiations between Baloch leaders and the government's parliamentary committee. The said the Baloch people would not abandon their rights, as he put it. But he denied they were fighting to secure the royalty for Sui gas, of which, he said, the federal government started paying 12.5% to Balochistan as a result of protests by the people of the province. He added that royalty was a constitutional matter and was not paid to individuals. |
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