Khyber News

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf Tuesday while offering dialogue to the “estranged elements” of Balochistan, said the government would not let a handful of people take patriotic people of Balochistan hostage. 

The prime minister was addressing a gathering at the National Defence University where he appealed to disgruntled Baloch youth not to play into the hands of the enemy, urging them to hold talks with the government.

The Prime Minister said the people of Pakistan will go an extra mile to redress the grievances of the people of Balochistan.

Raja Pervez Asfharf said that the foreign elements were involved in the unrest in Balochistan. The prime minister said that talks will not be held with individuals who disgrace the nation, adding that the biggest problem in Balochistan was law and order.

“If the unrest in some areas of Balochistan is not dealt with, it may have adverse effects on other areas,” Ashraf said.

The prime minister was also critical of the foreign press and called their reporting an exaggeration of actual events in Balochistan.

 The government and people will solve the problems of Balochistan with the mutual cooperation, the PM said.

Director General military operation, Major General Ashfaq Nadeem said that there was no operation going on in Balochistan.

“We are not against a political solution of the province,” Major General Nadeem said.

He said that the militants enter in the province from Afghanistan and South Waziristan.