| The Balochistan National Party has asked the PPP and the PML-N to immediately release its detained president, Sardar Akhtar Mengal. BNP Information Secretary Sanaullah Baloch told Daily Times that his party welcomed the apology tendered by the PPP to the people of Balochistan. However, he said, if the PPP and the PML-N sought redress for the grievances of the Baloch, then they would quickly secure the release of former chief minister Sardar Akhtar Mengal. He demanded that a “truth commission” be formed to investigate the killing of Nawab Bugti and Balach Marri, and the human rights abuses in the past five years. Separately, BNP leader Professor Nahila Qadiri told a press conference that the new government would not be accepted unless BNP’s leaders were released. |