Killing of Seraiki workers: Nationalists want diplomatic ties with Iran cut off

MULTAN: Seraiki nationalists have urged the government to terminate diplomatic relations with Iran till the arrest of the killers of Seraiki workers.

Addressing a joint press conference here on Monday, Pakistan Seraiki Party Chief Allah Nawaz Wains, Seraiki Qaumi Council Chairman Zahoor Dhareja, Seraikistan Democratic Party Chairman Faraz Noon, Seraikistan Youth Movement President Mazhar Kat, Seraikistan Democratic Party President Inayatullah Mashriqi, Pakistan Seraiki Party Deputy Secretary General Javed Chanar and NA candidate Akram Shaheen said the bodies of the Seraiki workers killed in Iran should be brought back immediately. They said the foreign minister of Iran reached Pakistan before the dead bodies and it was a big question mark. It is not understood how long the people of Wasaib will continue to receive bodies, sometimes from Waziristan, sometimes from Balochistan and sometimes from Iran

They said today if they had their own province, the people of Wasaib would not have become a rolling stone for the sake of employment. They said the incidents of killing of Seraiki labourers fell under the category of genocide. The silence of the government of Pakistan and provincial governments on these incidents is condemnable. They said there had been an endless series of killings of Seraiki workers in Balochistan for years, but no killer had been arrested till date. They said the shameless thing was that political parties and human rights organizations were also silent on this issue. The governments of Iran and Afghanistan should conduct an operation against banned anti-Pakistan organizations operating from their countries. The government of Pakistan should send not only unregistered but also registered Afghan refugees back to Afghanistan because Afghan refugees are the main cause for illegal businesses and crimes in Pakistan. They are smuggling gold and dollars from Pakistan, damaging Pakistan’s economy.