Agencies Killed Jalib: Sardar Attaullah Mengal

Mengal directly held the state secrete services for the high-profile political assassination.

QUETTA, JULY 14: Veteran Baloch nationalist leader and the patron-in-chief of Balochistan National Party (BNP) Sardar Attaullah Mengal has held state intelligence agencies responsible for the killing of former senator and BNP secretary general Habib Jalib Baloch.

According to the BBC Urdu Service, the seasoned Baloch nationalist leader refused to agree that some armed groups could be behind the killing of Habib Jalib Baloch. He directly held the state secrete services for the high-profile political assassination.

Sardar Mengal said, " the custodians of the government of Pakistan, who are also called agencies, responsible for Jalib's killing."

Mengal, who was the first ever elected chief minister of Balochistan, said the state agencies were killing the Balochs one after the other in order to take them to a point of no-return. They want to push the Balochs in a situation where there is no way back to return but the BNP has avoided such a path. This is not a favor done to them but an act of precaution. " I don't know for how long this will happen," he said.

The aging Baloch leader said if top political figures like Benazir Bhutto and Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti were not spared then how would Jalib, a common man, stay safe in the country.

" Jalib was a very good friend and a responsible activist. He has left behind a great loss," he added.

Mengal said Jalib had belonged to the middle class and it was only the middle class doing right kind of political activism in the country because the poorer people were engaged in searching for bread and butter while the establishment killed the middle class leaders one by one because they find these people criticizing the ruling elite.