QUETTA, July 3: The four-party Baloch Alliance has rejected the parliamentary committee’s recommendations on Balochistan and has vowed to continue the struggle for the national rights of Baloch people.

Speaking at a joint news conference at the press club on Sunday after a meeting of the alliance, Dr Hayee Baloch read out a four-page statement alleging that the parliamentary committee at the behest of the centre, intelligence agencies, bureaucracy and anti-Baloch elements had prepared the recommendations.

JWP Senator Amanullah Kanrani and BNP-Mengal secretary-general Habib Jalib Baloch, Opposition Leader in the Balochistan Assembly Kachkol Baloch, Senator Sana Baloch, MPAs Saleem Khoso and Akhtar Hussain, Mir Hasil Bizenjo, Sajid Tareen and Malik Wali Kakar were present on the occasion.

Dr Baloch said that the alliance had submitted 35-point proposals to the parliamentary committee for resolution of the contentious issues of Balochistan but the committee recommendations had ignored the vital points.

He said that they had demanded the rollback of Gwadar port construction plan and establishment of cantonments; end of military operation; release of BSO members and nationalist activists under fake cases; Baloch people’s representation in federal institutions; and recognition of Baloch rights on its resources.

He said that the committee was given the task to complete the report in 90 days but the recommendations were prepared in 270 days and moreover instead of resolving it complicated the Balochistan issue.

The alliance leader alleged that the government had tried to buy the time under the pretext of compiling the report and during that period the Baloch people had to face excesses, large number of nationalists’ arrests, hushing up the Dr Shazia rape case, security forces onslaught and illegal land allotments in Gwadar.

He said the government was reluctant to settle the Balochistan issue and was following anti-Baloch agenda.

He said that the committee’s recommendations lack the NFC award distribution on backwardness, area and revenue collection. It neither referred to the excesses of coast guards and frontier corps nor empowering the province to control its resources, he said, adding that what to say of abolition the security forces’ checkpoints in Uthal, Pasni Ormara and other areas.

He alleged that the parliamentary committee had made an attempt to divide the people of the province on linguistic, cultural, historical and ethnic basis.

Dr Baloch said that the recommendations did not even mention the repatriation of Afghan refugees from the province.

TWO KILLED: Two persons were killed and two others sustained bullet wounds in a clash of two groups of the Jatak tribe on Sunday night on Sariab road. The firing took the lives of Ataullah Jatak and an unidentified passer-by While the injured Hamayun and Zakarya were admitted to the civil hospital. The Sariab police said the cause of clash was stated to be an old dispute between the two groups.

DEATH SENTENCE: The Sibi sessions court awarded capital punishment and fine to an accused in a murder case.

Judge Chaudhry Mohammad Ashraf on Saturday convicted Lal Khan of murder and awarded death sentence and fine of Rs50,000 to the accused for killing one Mumtaz Ali.

Three of his co-accused were still at large.