Monday, 29 Jun, 2009
QUETTA: Balochistan National Party-M chief Sardar Akhtar Mengal said on Sunday there would be no compromise on the national rights of Baloch people who were determined to defeat the elements who had usurped the coast and resources of the province.
Addressing a public meeting, he said that besides looting resources of the Baloch people the usurpers had also plundered the resources of Sindh and Pakhtunkhwa. He said the land of the Pakhtuns was still without its real identity.
He alleged the rulers had deceived the Baloch in the name of negotiations in the past and after the bitter experience the people would not be misled again.
The public meeting adopted a resolution urging the United Nations to intervene to stop the killing of Baloch people in military operations, detaining of political activists and plunder of Balochistan’s resources.
The meeting held at the Ayub Stadium at the end of the party’s national council adopted several other resolutions. One of them said that the BNP would effectively use whatever means it deemed fit to achieve the right to self-determination, including creation of ‘a national state for the Baloch people’.
Akhtar Mengal presided over the meeting. Mohinuddin Baloch of Baloch Students Organisation, Mir Hasil Bizenjo of National Party, Rauf Lala of Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party, Khudadad Khan of the Awami National Party and Mohammad Rahmoo of Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz addressed the gathering.
Another resolution rejected the Gwadar project and said it aimed at converting the Baloch majority into a minority, to destroy the traditional economy of native fishermen and to displace the Baloch population. It said the oil terminal and oil city would pollute the Gulf of Baloch.
The meeting said that being a nationalist and progressive party, the BNP-M was struggling against tribalism, sectarianism and opportunism and promoting national thinking among the Baloch people.
The meeting rejected all mega projects, including Saindak, Rekodick and laying of gas pipeline, and demanded their cancellation.
A resolution claimed that the BNP would continue to expose the designs of establishment and agencies and Punjab’s interference in the region, particularly in affairs of Afghanistan.
Earlier, the party re-elected Sardar Akhtar Mengal as its president and Habib Jalib Baloch as secretary-general.
The meeting of the BNP’s national council, attended by 500 councillors, also elected the following office-bearers:
Senior vice-president Dr Jehanzeb Jamaldini, vice-president Sajid Tareen, deputy secretary-general Jehanzeb Baloch, joint-secretary Akhtar Hussain, information secretary Agha Hasan Baloch, finance secretary Amal Baloch, labour wing secretary Razzak Lango, peasant wing secretary Malik Naseer Shahwani and women wing secretary Yasmin Baloch.
The council also elected 32 members of the executive committee.
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