Nawab Marri is seriously sick, says Marri Ittehad spokesman QUETTA: Mr. Chakar Marri, a spokesman of the Marri Ittehad, Quetta, has claimed that Nawab Khair Bakhsh Marri, the veteran Baluch nationalist leader, has fallen ill and he is not taking food for the past 48 hours. In a statement issued to the Press, he said Nawab Sahib is suffering from kidney infection since long and the Government provided no treatment to the elderly leader. He is also facing problem in his teeth and some of the teeth are also infected causing severe fever and weakness. As result of it, Nawab Sahib has stopped taking food for the past two days. He deplored that Nawab Sahib is sick for the past one year or more and the Government failed to provide adequate medical facilities to him in the prison cell. He said that the Government made no efforts to diagnose the disease to this date, nor any specialist doctor or surgeon was sent to investigate or examine Nawab Sahib. Mr. Chakar Marri criticised the Government for not taking any interest in providing adequate treatment facility to Nawab Marri. He claimed that Superintendent of Quetta Prison also adopted an hostile attitude towards Nawab Marri and all those people trying to meet Nawab Marri in Quetta Prison. He said that the discriminatory attitude of the Provincial Government towards Nawab Marri was understandable. Mr. Chakar said that Mian Nawaz Sharif, a convict was released and sent to Saudi Arabia while the Baluch nationalist leader is denied treatment facilities in his prison cell. He said that the process of accountability, removal from service of senior Baluch officers is confined to Balochistan Province only while the corrupt in other provinces or ethnic background are being protected and patronised.  By Balochistanexpress.com 23.5.01