KARACHI: Chief of the Balochistan chapter of Jamhoori Watan Party – Talal faction, Nawabzada Shahzain Bugti, on Thursday said he would hold the ‘long march’ towards Dera Bugti and that efforts to stop the march would not succeed.
Speaking to media representatives in Karachi, Shahzain said the long march would be held at all costs and he would start the march from tomorrow. He said he was hopeful that the government would not create hurdles in holding the march.
Shahzain, the grandson of late Nawab Akbar Bugti, and his 26 security guards were arrested on December 22, 2010 by paramilitary troops of the Frontier Corps at the Buleli checkpoint near Quetta. Their arrest followed the recovery of a huge quantity of illegal arms and ammunition, including anti-aircraft guns, from the vehicles of Shahzain’s convoy coming from the border town of Chaman.
Shahzain and the 26 guards were released from Quetta district jail on January 18 after grant of bail by the Balochistan High Court.
