Pakistan releases 15 missing tribesmen

Sun Nov 29, 2009

Pakistan has released fifteen of the thousands of missing Bugti tribesmen under the Balochistan Package announced by Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani.

Official sources told a Press TV correspondent on Saturday that the tribesmen were released in the Dasht-e-Goran area of Dera Bugti district late on Friday and were able to join their families for the Eid al-Adha celebration.

Five people, including Dr. Dost Mohammad Lango, a leader of the National Party, and Ahmed Mir Bugti, a member of the Baloch Republican Party, were released under the same initiative, according to official sources.

The other three were identified as Saleem Lango, Shaukat Lango, and Aurangzeb Lango. All of them had gone missing two months ago.

However, the leaders of the Baloch Republican Party and the Baloch National Front claim that no political workers have been set free.

The Pakistani prime minister announced in this week's Balochistan Package that some of the missing persons would start returning home.

Baloch nationalist parties are claiming that around 4,000 people arrested during the military operation initiated during former military ruler General Pervez Musharraf's time in office across Balochistan province are still missing.

Source: PressTV.
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