 QUETTA: The law enforcement agencies put two prominent members of the Jamhoori Watan Party (JWP), which is headed by Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti, under house arrest on Sunday. Security forces have been deployed at the residences of Senator Agha Shahid Bugti, JWP secretary general, and Humayun Khan Marri, JWP provincial president. "I have been kept under house arrest since this morning," Senator Bugti told Daily Times via telephone. He said that Hamayun Khan Marri was also under house arrest. "Our house arrest comes only two days after the kidnapping of my brother Bilal Bugti and another JWP activist Murtaza Bugti in Karachi. This is an illegal and unconstitutional action which we strongly condemn," he added. | I agree fully with Senator Bugti. This illegal and clearly unconstitutional action must be met with Resistance®. It is most certainly his Legitimate Right™. I urge him to begin his Resistance® immediately, while he has the element of surprise. If he waits for Bugti backup, the window of opportunity will close. |
Law enforcement personnel deployed at the residences of the JWP members said they had orders to restrict the movement of the two Baloch leaders. "We will stay here until the checks clear we are ordered to leave," one guard said. |