QUETTA: Jamhoori Watan Party (JWP) President Nawabzada Talal Akbar Bugti on Monday asked his nephew and Baloch guerrilla leader Nawabzada Bramdagh Bugti to give up what he called ‘terrorist activities’. Talal, a son of former Balochistan governor and chief minister Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti said in a news conference that Bramdagh was not serving the Baloch cause but promoting terrorism in the guise of a struggle for the rights of the Baloch people. “Targeting government installations, railway tracks, gas pipelines and killing innocent people from other provinces is no nationalism,” he said. “If Bramdagh does not surrender his operations, we will join hands with the government to crush him,” Talal said, adding that no one would be allowed to use the name of the Bugti family to kill innocent citizens. Talal and Bramdagh developed serious differences after the death of Nawab Akbar Bugti, as the former articulated his support for provincial autonomy and parliamentary politics while the latter took to the mountains to wage an armed resistance against the government. The JWP leader said Agha Shahid Bugti, a former senator and the secretary general of the JWP, had been fired from the party therefore Shahid’s meeting with the prime minister or other top government officials should not be seen as the party’s official contacts. staff report
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