 The government is prepared even to amend the Constitution to satisfy the Baloch people, said Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, the president of the Pakistan Muslim League (PML), on Monday, Online reported. Talking to Voice of America, Shujaat said the government had no plans to start a military offensive in Balochistan and would sort out all problems with the Baloch through dialogue.
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Shujaaat said the government wanted Balochistan to prosper and progress and was currently carrying out major development programmes in the province to bring it at par with the rest of the country. Shujaat said that though he was in close contact with tribal chief Nawab Akbar Bugti, some people were instigating him against the government and military. He said some elements in Islamabad also opposed a political solution to the Balochistan problem. "It will be our effort that they do not succeed in their nefarious designs."
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"We will never compromise the country's national interests and can even relinquish power for the purpose," Shujaat said. In an interview to Geo TV, Shujaat reiterated that the problems in Balochistan were political and would be resolved politically, APP reported. "Political issues can be resolved through political means and we are trying to resolve it," he said. Shujaat said the parliamentary committee on Balochistan he chairs has representatives from all political parties and will finalise its recommendations very soon, then present a report to the government in two or three days. To a question, he said the provincial government had requested the federal government for help to secure the Sui area, but there is no military operation in Balochistan. He said an inquiry into the gangrape of the woman doctor is underway and the rapists will be punished. |