QUETTA, Aug 25: The Baloch Republican Party and Balochistan National Party have praised the sacrifice of Nawab Akbar Bugti in the struggle for the Baloch rights.
Addressing seminars held at two places here on Monday, BRP and BNP leaders gave a call for a strike on Tuesday on the second death anniversary of Nawab Bugti.
Baloch nationalists across the country and abroad will observe the second death anniversary of Nawab Akbar Bugti, founder of the Jamhoori Watan Party, various Baloch nationalist parties and groups announced here on Monday.
Nawab Bugti was killed along with some of his relatives and supporters in an army action near Sangseela Mountains, near Dera Bugti, on Aug 26, 2006.
Seminars and rallies have been organised in Balochistan and Sindh to pay homage to the JWP leader.
His tribesmen and supporters would renew their pledge to carry forward the Nawab’s mission of getting Balochistan’s and the Baloch people’s sovereign rights restored, the organisers said, recalling that the assassinated leader had laid down his life for the cause.
They said Nawab Bugti had spearheaded a decades-long campaign for greater provincial autonomy and Balochistan’s legitimate claim to its natural resources.
The JWP and its like-minded nationalist forces hold former military ruler Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf responsible for the assassination of Nawab Bugti and his companions.
The outfits, including the Baloch National Movement, have also given a call for a shutter-down strike for Tuesday and declared Aug 26 a “black day”.
Nationalist parties have also planned to stage a rally at Haat Chowk at 3pm on Tuesday. Several nationalist leaders will speak to the participants.
Dr Jehanzeb Jamaldini, Habib Jalib Baloch, Dr Hayee Baloch and Javed Baloch said that during the military operation in the province, hundreds of Baloch, including Nawab Bugti and Balaach Marri, had been killed.
They said that despite their oppression, the rulers had failed to suppress the political struggle of the Baloch people.
Nawab Bugti and Balaach refused to surrender to the usurpers and preferred martyrdom.
They said the Baloch people would take the movement of the martyrs ahead and protect the motherland.
They said that Baloch political groups, despite having different views on the strategy for the struggle, were united in their determination to defeat the usurpers who had been looting the resources of Balochistan for six decades.
Meanwhile, 3,000 police personnel have been deployed in Quetta on the eve of Nawab Bugti’s death anniversary.
DIG operation Wazir Khan Nasir told a press conference that joint patrolling teams had been formed to maintain peace in the city.
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