QUETTA, Jan 28: Jamhoori Watan Party chief Nawabzada Talal Akbar Bugti said on Wednesday that President Asif Ali Zardari had assured him that the JWP’s 16-point agenda for resolving various problems of Balochistan would be implemented in four months.

Addressing a press conference, Mr Bugti said that his meetings with President Zardari in Islamabad and PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif in Lahore were successful and he had stressed the need for dialogue between political leaders to resolve issues.

He said that the president’s response was positive that FIRs should be registered against the killers of PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto and Baloch leader Nawab Akbar Bugti. He said accountability of rulers was necessary to strengthen democratic institutions.

He said that common people of Punjab continued to remain deprived of rights like the people in Balochistan but “a particular group in Punjab and army were responsible for the miseries of Balochs”.

The JWP chief said that India and some other countries were responsible for 80 per cent of violence taking place in Balochistan while the rest of such activities were committed by militants or resistance movements.

Opposing deployment of security forces and establishment of cantonments in Sui, Dera Bugti and Kohlu districts, he said political issues should be resolved through talks as use of force against people would worsen the situation.

Mr Bugti urged the top leaders of PPP and PML-N to implement the Charter of Democracy singed by Ms Bhutto and Mr Sharif, saying that only a stable political system could strengthen democracy and rule of law.

PML-N PROTEST: The workers of the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) held a demonstration supporting renaming of the NWFP as Pakhtunkhwa.

The PML-N workers led by provincial vice-president Noor Khan Nasar assembled in the front of the Quetta Press Club and raised slogans in favour of Pakhtunkhwa as the new name of the NWFP. They dispersed peacefully after the demonstration.

PML-N’s additional general secretary Sardar Akbar Kharoti, joint secretary Abdul Wahab Safi and Muslim Students Federation president Dad Shah Achakzai were prominent among the demonstrators.

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