The government should curtail the role of military and intelligence agencies and call off the military operation ii it wants a political solution to the festering Balochistan imbroglio,said speakers at a national
conference.Local politicians, nationalist leaders, rights campaigners and lawyers attended the conference organised by the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) and moderated by its President Yasin Azad in Quetta on Sunday.They called for an open trial of the killers of Jamhoori Wattan Party (JWP) chief Nawab Akbar Bugtì who died in August 2006 more than eight months after a military operation was launched by
Gen Pervez Musharraf.They also demanded that the spiral of violence must stop and all missing persons recovered.Rights campaigners blame security agencies for the enforced disappearances in the volatile
province - where Baloch separatists have been fighting a deadly insurgency since 2004.Former SCBA chief and senior lawyer Asma Jahangir did not mince words in her criticism of the military for the mess in Balochistan.“The army wants to exploit the resources of Balochistan and snatch the right of ownership of its people
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