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Army Chief Inaugurates Sui Military College

COAS orders dismantling of Sui cantonment

QUETTA – While announcing the dismantling of Sui Cantonment and turning it into a education city, Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani Monday said an educated and prosperous Balochistan guaranteed a strong and stable Pakistan.

He said strong, stable and thriving Balochistan had remained utmost dream of Army as it could help making the country prosperous.
He was addressing the inaugural ceremony of country’s third military college at the gas producing town of Sui in Dera Bugti district.

Balochistan Governor Nawab Zulfiqar Ali Magsi, Chief Minister Nawab Aslam Raisani and Commander Southern command Lt Gen Javed Zia were also present on the occasion.

Kayani said the people and the Army could make Pakistan a strong country by joining their hands, adding that the masses were the real power of the Army which could not achieve its goals without their cooperation.

He said Balochistan was rich in natural resources and the local people had the first right over this wealth.

He said the establishment of Pakistan Educational City Sui would bring a positive change in the area which was a New Year gift on behalf of Army to the people of Balochistan.

“Efforts are being made to induct more and more Baloch youth in the Army,” he said, adding that 3,500 Baloch youth were imparted technical training while another 1700 were being trained by the Army.
The COAS said Baloch were patriotic and could play a very constructive role for the defence and prosperity of the country.

He said mega development projects were completed in the province in past and now under 18th Amendment, Balochistan received 110 per cent more resources, which should be spent for human development and prosperity of the province.

In his speech, Governor Zulfiqar Magsi sought General Kayani’s attention towards the growing number of missing Baloch youth and made a passionate appeal for their recovery, saying the international community was also expressing their concern over the matter.

Magsi stressed the need of exposing the people involved in the abduction of missing persons and said their families should be informed whether they were alive or not. If they were involved in any criminal activity, they should be tried in the court of law, he added.

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A security personnel keeps guard while Pakistani Army Chief Ashfaq Parvez Kayani (L) arrives to inaugurate a technical training center in Gwadar in Balochistan Province April 18, 2011. Kayani said on Monday that in the future no operation will take place in Balochistan without the permission of the provincial government, Pakistan's Dawn newspaper reported.


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