The constitution does not apply to the Baloch because a majority of Baloch leaders refrained from endorsing the document when parliament approved it in 1973, said Nawab Akbar Bugti, chief of the Bugti tribe, on Monday. Talking to a private television channel, Nawab Bugti said only two of the five members from Balochistan signed the constitution, which was passed by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's government. He said, "We (the Baloch) are not a signatory to the constitution. We neither voted for it nor we signed it and therefore it does not apply to us." Denying links between the JWP (his party) and the Baloch Liberation Front (BLF), he said the BLF came into being during Zulfikar Bhutto's era, but it was not alone and the BLA and People's Liberation Front were also active.