QUETTA (HRNW) Gulzar Imam alias Shambay, a Baloch Nationalist Army (BNA) commander who had been arrested earlier, said on Tuesday armed resilience had pushed Balochistan back to “stone age”.
Addressing a press conference, he said he wanted his “friends”, who were still fighting, to sit with the state to solve their problems using logic. “War has pushed the province into dark and I want Baloch students to play their part in development rather than fighting,” he added.
He went on to say that he had been an active part of agitation in Balochistan for 15 years, adding that it was his duty to secure right of Baloch people. “During arrest, I got the ooportunity to introspect, and I analysed the literature of arned groups operating across the world.
It dawned upon me that fight for rights of Balochistan could only be fought constitutionally, he said.
He continued by saying that he started the war against the state, adding that the way he chose was “wrong” as it was complicating Balochistan’s problems rather than solving them. “They use Baloch as a pressure group only and it was damaging Baloch people,” he added.
He said that the world reflected that solution lied in dialogue, adding that all including federal governmant, provincial governments, and armed groups were responsible for the state Balochistan was in. “He felt that state insitutions have heard their problems and he is hopeful that state will give him a chance to change,” he added.