QUETTA, Aug 15: Security forces have laid a siege to the residence of former caretaker chief minister Mir Humayun Khan Marri in the Mian Ghundi area on the outskirts of Quetta, it is learnt on Monday.

It was the second such action on Mr Marri's house over the past three days.

“The FC men and personnel of other law-enforcement agencies have cordoned off my house since 7pm and they are present around my house,” Mr Marri told by telephone late on Monday night, alleging that security personnel had ransacked his house.

“They entered my house without search warrants,” he said, adding that it was a violation of the sanctity of chaddar and chardewari.

“Two days ago, they (security personnel) staged a drama of recovering illegal weapons from my residence and also raided the house of Nawabzada Jamil Akbar Bugti,” Mr Marri said.

The former CM said through such raids the government wanted to harass and pressure him not to raise his voice against the atrocities and injustices being allegedly committed by security forces against Baloch people.

However, he said, such tactics could not force him and Jamil Bugti to surrender before the government.

Nawabzada Jamil Bugti, son of the late Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti, also accused security forces of raiding his house. He said that no Baloch house was now safe from the hands of security forces.

“They can now recover weapons of mass destruction from my house,” he said, adding “people carrying weapons are powerful people and they can do anything”.

In fact, he said, through such raids security forces wanted to convey a message to him to withdraw the case against the killers of Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti.

He claimed that director of the crimes branch had informed the court that the chief secretary had told them not to arrest people nominated in the Bugti's murder case.