ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf has ordered authorities to ensure that the Supreme Court’s orders regarding the law and order situation in Balochistan are implemented in letter and spirit, DawnNews reported.

Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf issued these directions on Saturday during a meeting with Balochistan Chief Secretary Babar Yaqoob Fateh Muhammad here in Islamabad. The chief secretary briefed PM Ashraf about the law and order situation in the province.

He assured the Balochistan chief secretary that the federal government would provide every facility required to solve the law and order problem in Balochistan to its provincial government.

He added that all available resources should be used to implement the apex court’s orders.

The prime minister’s instructions come at a time when seven Shia Muslims were killed in two separate incidents in the provincial capital, Quetta.

Apart from a long-running separatist insurgency in Balochistan, there has been an alarming rise in sectarian terrorism in the province recently.

Pakistan’s intelligence agencies have also come under fire recently for the alleged abduction of locals, enforced disappearances, and the alleged murders of suspects kept in illegal detention.