TIL Desk/World/Islamabad/ Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday indicated that he is considering “talking to insurgents” in Balochistan and blamed the insurgency in the restive province on previous governments which failed to carry out development work in the region.
Balochistan province has been host to a long-running separatist insurgency. Activists in Balochistan say thousands of campaigners have gone missing in recent years and accuse the Pakistani military of brutally suppressing the region’s aspirations for autonomy.
Addressing a gathering of local elders, students and businessmen in Gwadar during his day-long visit to the port city, Khan said that he is considering “talking to insurgents” in Balochistan.
He said the unrest in Balochistan was linked to poverty and backwardness and a government would never have had to worry about the insurgency if attention had been paid to its development.