WRAP Latest on tribal violence

(23 Mar 2005) SHOTLIST

Dera Bugti, Baluchistan province
1. Wide shot of Dera Bugti region
2. Long shot of Bugti tribesman looking down from cliff top
3. Various of convoy of journalists, Frontier Corps paramilitaries and opposition members of Parliament stopped at roadblock
4. Bugti tribesmen on cliff top wave convoy on
5. Tribesman with gun behind bush
6. Tribesmen in tribal leader Nawab Akbar Bugti's compound
7. Various of tribesmen with guns
8. Various of Nawab Akbar Bugti walking surrounded by supporters
9. Wide shot Bugti talking to media
10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Nawab Akbar Bugti, leader of Bugti tribe
"Everyone is after our national wealth, our broad national wealth."
11. Cutaway
12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Nawab Akbar Bugti, leader of Bugti tribe
"For example take the natural gas. It has been flowing through these pipelines for the last 50 years or more to every nook and corner of Pakistan but not Baluchistan."
13. Cutaway
14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Nawab Akbar Bugti, leader of Bugti tribe
"So it is daylight robbery by force of arms and what happened a few days ago was part of all this."
15. Various of tribesmen looking at damage caused by recent fighting between tribe and Pakistani security forces

Sui, Baluchistan province
16. Various aerials from Pakistan army helicopter over Baluchistan landscape
17. Wide shot of Frontier Corps briefing
18. SOUNDBITE: (English/Urdu) Brigadier Salim Nawaz, Frontier Corps:
"Sir, we have the capability to force our way through and go and get in touch with the people who are surrounded there, through these (tribal check) posts. We have not done it. We have not done it. This one, our restraint and this is our plan. We have no intention of doing it. What we want is that the security situation should prevail. Now it is the government's job."

Dera Bugti, Baluchistan province
19. Frontier Corps soldier looking at hills
20. Troops in van
21. Gun barrel

Sui, Baluchistan province
22. Wide shot of about 500 people protesting in support of Nawab Akbar Bugti
23. Protesters chanting "Stop military operation in Dera Bugti"
24. Various of protesters

STORYLINE

A standoff between Pakistani soldiers and thousands of tribesmen continued on Wednesday, days after deadly clashes between the two sides.

The commander of the tribesmen said on Tuesday that thousands of armed Bugti tribesmen have surrounded a military base near Dera Bugti, in Pakistan's southwestern Baluchistan province.

Journalists and politicians who travelled to the area under military escort were able to enter the base in a convoy without incident, however, and the tribal leader denied his men were besieging the base.

In the desert town, hundreds of turbaned tribesmen shouted support for tribal leader Nawab Akbar Bugti, who has accused the government of starting the conflict.

There was no violence during the visit.

Bugti has said troops initiated fighting on Thursday that left 62 people dead - including 32 minority Hindus who died when their temple and surrounding homes came under attack.

Tribesmen have been angered by a dispute over royalty rights for natural gas extracted from the area, and by government plans to set up a new military garrison.

Bugti claimed natural gas had been piped out of the province for decades.

He called it "daylight robbery by force of arms" and cited the recent clashes as an example of this.

Thousands of government officials, their families, and women and children of local tribesmen have fled Dera Bugti.



Meanwhile, in the town of Sui, about 500 people gathered to protest in support of Bugti.




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