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Published on Thursday, 19 January 2012 20:12
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KARACHI - Elderly Baloch politician and former chief minister of
Balochistan Sardar Attaullah Mengal has said the root causes of problems in
Balochistan were the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and security
institutions, and suggested the withdrawal of army, release of missing
persons and trial of those arrested on murder and kidnapping charges in
courts as the solution.
In an interview with Voice of Germany here on Sunday, Mengal said Balochs
had reached to the point of no return as they could not get their rights by
remaining within the geographical frontiers of Pakistan and they had
decided not to be part of the country.
Mengal said Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani and Pakistan Muslim
League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Nawaz Sharif met him but no one had the
power to stop the army’s intervention in Balochistan. He warned that if the
army’s intervention continued, no one would be able to stop the
disintegration of Pakistan. He was of the opinion that the Baloch people
were receiving the same treatment as Bengalis. He said every day disfigured
dead bodies of Baloch youths were being received and people were being
kidnapped, which was a source of serious concern.
He said he had no contacts with Baloch youths who were on the mountains
and, in a message to them, said if they could fight, they should do so
otherwise they should not cause difficulties for their families and return
home.
Mengal said Baloch youths were not under his control and had he been not
aged, he would have been fighting alongside them in the mountains.
