Balochistan government responsible for poor law, order: Bizenjo

Central Leader of the National Party (NP) Senator Mir Hasil Khan Bizenjo has blamed provincial government for its failure to maintain law and order, saying it has not taken requisite steps to end violence in Balochistan. In an interview with APP on Tuesday, he said that peace could not be restored in Balochistan until the federal and the provincial governments demonstrate their resolve to solve the issue.
He said that maintenance of law and order was provincial and not federal subject. He blamed that provincial government was not serious to take practical steps to maintain peace in the province. He emphasised the need to make intelligence network more efficient for checking violence in the province.
Bizenjo said that no adequate steps were taken at provincial level to normalise the law and order situation in the province. He observed when a person travelled to Turbat from Quetta, he might be deprived of his belongings at the hands of the looters who, he alleged, had support of locals and the police. He said that criminals Mafia in different forms was operating in various parts of the province.
He said there was no writ of the government across Balochistan. When he was asked whether a law enforcement operation should be launched to end violence and restore peace, he replied that in the history of the world, military and such operations had never been a solution to law and order situation. Such steps always created hatred in the local people against the federation, he added.
He said that when Balochistan had population of only few millions people there was no need to tackle the issue by using force. He opined the use of force could not root out violence but it might increase it. Bizenjo was asked to give his proposal to secure peace in Balochistan; he said that how violence could be ended when criminal mMfia through manipulation of elections had brought into powers their sympathisers.
Bizenjo viewed that to root out violence in the province; the general elections should be held in the province under the supervision of an independent Election Commission. He accused that people with criminal record had been coming to powers. He maintained that through free and fair elections, genuine leadership of the Baloch people would come into power who could root out violence by resolving problems of masses. Commenting on provincial autonomy, he said that the term provincial autonomy should be taken as national autonomy as many nations including Pashtune, Punjabi, Seraiki, Sindhi, and Baloch lived in Pakistan.