QUETTA: Balochistan National Party (BNP) Chief Organiser Sardar Akhtar Mengal has claimed that the federal government has not taken the provincial government into confidence before signing Pak-China Economic Corridor project and no mega development project is acceptable without prior approval of the locals.
He said this while talking to media after meeting PPP Balochistan chapter President Mir Sadiq Umrani. The BNP leader alleged that the then military ruler Pervez Musharraf had launched a military operation in the province just to start work on the Gwadar seaport.
Mengal said that since 1948 they were struggling for the ownership of Baloch people over the resources and coast of Balochistan but the “usurpers, instead of accepting the demand, have resorted to violence to quell the political movement for national rights”.
Sadiq Umrani said Balochistan people had reservations over the change being made in the route of the economic corridor.
He was critical of the performance of the provincial government as neither it could curb corruption nor improve law and order situation.
Last year, Chinese government announced that it will finance Chinese companies to build $45.6 billion worth of energy and infrastructure projects in Pakistan as part of CPEC.
