ISLAMABAD: Baloch leaders on Thursday termed the reconciliation process initiated by the Pakistan People's Party as eyewash as team of the reconciliation committee is heading today (Friday) to the conflict-hit province with an aim to hold talks in order to discuss and resolve the Balochistan crisis.
They said that there was no need to hold meetings with Baloch leaders rather to take benefit from a combined paper prepared by all Baloch parties and submitted to the previous committee headed by Pakistan Muslim League-Q leaders Mushahid Hussain Syed and Wasim Sajjad. The PML-Q could not process the recommendations made by the committee.
Talking to The Post, former lawmaker and the Balochistan National Party-M leader Abdul Rauf Mengal said that they have learned through the media that a PPP delegation was coming to Balochistan but they were not formally informed about their arrival. Not only the BNP-M, but other Baloch parties could not be contacted over the process, the former MNA said.
There was no need to hold meetings with the Baloch leaders because all the nationalist parties were agree that the PPP committee should take benefit from the recommendations made by them to the previous committee, he said. Mengal said that the PPP effort was just an attempt to kill the time.
The PPP reconciliation committee, renamed as Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Committee headed by its secretary Senator Dr Babar Awan is leaving for today to Balochistan to conduct formal negotiations with nationalists and tribal heads in a bid to restore peace in the province.
The other members of the committee are MNA Aijaz Jakhrani and MNA Nabeel Gabol.
Numerous attempts made to contact committee members for their opinion but to no avail.
It is worth mentioning here that all nationalist leaders have refused to cooperate with the PPP reconciliatory process.
Prior to initiate negotiation process with them, they have demanded an immediate end to military operation in the province and recovery of all missing and arrested leaders and workers.
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