The Chief Minister (CM) Aslam Raisani said on April 4 that
the
Federal
Government
and
its
bureaucracy
were
not
mindful
of
the
seriousness
of
the
Balochistan
issue,
allowing
foreign
countries
to
interfere
in
the
Province,
reports
Dawn.
He
said,
“Islamabad
does
not
understand
the
importance
of
the
Balochistan
issue”
and
this
attitude
was
encouraging
the
anti-Pakistan
elements
to
misguide
jobless
Baloch
youths.
Other
countries
were
spending
money
to
achieve
their
nefarious
designs,
he
added.
The CM said the Federal Government was not providing funds
for
the
departments
devolved
to
his
province
under
the
18th
Amendment.
There
was
no
provision
in
the
18th
Amendment
or
the
NFC
Award
that
the
provinces
would
bear
all
expenditures
of
the
departments
transferred
to
them,
he
added.
Raisani
said
all
provinces,
including
Balochistan,
had
pleaded
on
the
eve
of
the
NFC
award
and
the
18th
Amendment
that
they
would
not
bear
expenditures
of
devolved
departments.
“If
the
federal
government
does
not
accept
this
principle,
it
should
take
back
the
Gwadar
port
and
other
devolved
departments.”
He
said
the
Aghaz-i-Haqooq-i-Balochistan
package,
under
which
the
Chief
Minister
was
made
chairman
of
the
Gwadar
Development
Authority,
was
not
fully
implemented
so
far. |
