Kanrani warns against any Police action in Dera Bugti

Senator Amanullah Kanrani, Provincial President of JWP, has claimed that the Government was flexing its military muscles and planning to start operation against the civilian population in Dera Bugti area. In a statement, he said that the Frontier Corps had diverted the directions of field guns towards the residence of Nawab Akbar Bugti in the Dera Bugti Township. 

He charged that the FC personnel secretly installed field guns and other heavy weapons within the premises of Qila Ahmadan Bugti in the neighbourhood and deliberately turned the direction towards the residence of Nawab Akbar Bugti, the elderly Baloch nationalist leader. Senator Amanullah Kanrani said that the Frontier Corps had also increased its movement and widened its activities covering a bigger area as a prelude to a police action in Bugti Tribal Agency. 

The Provincial JWP President strongly condemned the enhanced level of military activities on the part of the civil armed forces and warned the Government to desist from taking any action against the civilian population in Dera Bugti and other human settlements after demolishing 150 huts in Sui area recently. 9.3.04
Bugti accuses Government of fanning tribal feuds

QUETTA: Chief of Jamhori Watan Party Nawab Akbar Bugti Friday accused government of deliberately fanning tribal feuds arguing such things were common in human society. Talking to a three-member delegation of human rights, Bugti said situation in Dera Bugti could not be normalised unless what he said, "basic rights of local people are accepted by the government."

He alleged that oil and gas exploring companies had a number of time deceived them by not fulfilling the pledges that they had made with the tribesmen. Bugti told the delegation that country's 60% gas requirements were met from Sui field, however, the local population of the area was still deprived from this facility.

He rejected the allegations that Bugti tribesmen were involved in recent bomb explosions at gas installations insisting that they were protecting gas fields for last 50 years.

JWP chief maintained that they were not responsible if there were subversive activities taking places at gas installations. He expressed the hope that their row with Mazari tribe would soon be over. 2002