Nawab Muhammad Akbar Bugti, the chief of the Bugti tribe and chairman of the Jamhoori Watan Party (JWP), has again ruled out dialogue with the government on the Balochistan situation and said he would not talk to members of a committee lacking decision-making powers. Talking to Madni Baloch, the JWP Punjab vice president, on the phone on Saturday, Bugti said dialogue with a "toothless committee" on Balochistan was futile. He said he respected the army as an institution but the use of force would further deepen the Balochistan crisis, damaging Pakistan.Bugti said he was prepared to face severe punishment if a commission consisting of senior journalists and intellectuals found him guilty of damaging Sui gas plants and creating law and order problems there. He said the government was trying to cover up the gang-rape of a woman doctor and was not sincere in punishing those responsible. He demanded that Captain Hammad, the main accused in the rape case, be arrested and put to a fair trial. Bugti said the use of force and media trial would not help the government hide the 'truth'.