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Akhtar Mengal’s Uncle, Nadir Gichki, Shot Dead

Tuesday, 24 August 2010 22:19

TURBAT: Sardar Nadir Jan Gichki, an outstanding personality of royal family of Mekran, was gunned down outside a mosque in Tump, some 40 kilometers from here on Wednesday evening.

The assailants riding a red colour car waylaid Sardar Nadir Jan Gichki and opened fire from all directions ensuring his instant death.

The assailants were four in number and all of them were carrying sub-machine guns and opened volley of fire from all the four killing machines. He received uncountable number of bullets on all parts of his body. Virtually, he was sprayed with bullets killing him on the spot.

According to eye witness reached by telephone, the assailants were in Iranian registration number plate car presumably to mislead the investigators or the common people. Or they used the Iranian car only to cover up the manslaughter of the outstanding personality of Mekran.

BNP Protests Against Leaders’ Target Killing

Monday, 23 August 2010 14:07

QUETTA: Balochistan National Party (BNP-Mengal) staged a protest demonstration in front of Quetta Press Club on Sunday condemning the killing of its party’s central leader and tribal elder Sardar Nadir Jan Gichki and illegal hostage taking of political opponents. Sardar Nadir Khan Gichki was shot dead in Tump a few days ago.

The party workers were carrying placards and banners inscribed with slogans in support of their demands. They chanted full throat slogans against the government and its functionaries upon failure of maintenance order across the province.

Addressing the protesters, Central Secretary Information, Agha Hassan has said there is no sign of democracy but polices of Martial Law era are being implemented.

“The party leaders, workers and sympathizers have been targeted since the day one when present government has come into being in power,” he said adding that still the people of Balochistan are receiving bullet-riddle dead bodies of those who are striving for rights.

Editorial: End of Jalib Murder Investigation?

Sunday, 15 August 2010 18:00

Former BNP secretary General Habib Jalib, who was shot dead in Quetta on July 14th by unidentified persons, is perhaps the only “lucky” political figure in this country to get his murderers identified within a “very short” period of one month. Pakistan has had a history of several high-profile murders, including that of two former prime ministers i.e. Liaquat Ali Khan and Benazir Bhutto and former Balochistan governor Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti.

The real culprits responsible for these murders in 1951, 2007 and 2006 respectively could never be traced by the law enforcement agencies. Jalib’s case is strikingly different: Balochistan police claim to have rounded up the actual murders and ascertained confession — of killing Jalib — as well.

BNP Rejects Police Disclosure over Jalib’s Killing

Sunday, 15 August 2010 17:42

QUETTA: The Balochistan National Party (BNP-Mengal) has termed the arrest of culprits involved in Habib Jalib’s assassination as a “cock and bull story” and blamed the Quetta police to have allegedly provided protection to the real mastermind of the murder whose roots the BNP traces back to the government. .

The party leaders and close relatives utterly rejected the police claim that Jalib had some sort of dispute with someone except he was a staunch political opponent of the government.

Addressing a news conference at Quetta Press Club on Saturday, BNP’s Central Secretary Information Agha Hassan Advocate said that police had arrested a 16-year old “innocent boy” Ijaz who lived close to the house of late Jalib in connection to the high-profile murder.

UNPO amongst the voices denouncing tragic killing of Habib Jalib Baloch

Thursday, 22 July 2010 17:07

Mr. Habib Jalib Baloch, former senator from the Pakistani province of Balochistan and secretary general of UNPO Member organization the Balochistan National Party (BNP), was killed by two gunmen near his home in Quetta on 14 July 2010. Jalib, a former Supreme Court lawyer, was sitting at his brother’s shop when he was approached by two persons on a motorbike and gunned down. While the identities of the gunmen were not immediately clear, a manhunt has been launched and Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has ordered a judicial inquiry into the killing.

I Cried For Jalib

Saturday, 17 July 2010 14:04 Articles - Malik Siraj Akbar

Finally, I have no option but to delete 03003823908 from my cell phone. This was the phone number I often used to dial or get calls from. “late” Habib Jalib, secretary general of the Balochistan National Party who was killed here on Wednesday by unidentified assailants, used this number and humbly received phone calls after the second ring.

In the last couple of years, I have deleted several phone numbers from my cell phone after the contacts were target killed from time to time. I deleted the phone number of Ghulam Mohammad Baloch, the chairman of Baloch National Movement (BNM), even though he had promised to meet me “soon” in Quetta.

The Baloch Hal Brings You Back Shaeed Habib Jalib’s Exclusive Interview

Saturday, 07 August 2010 13:22

The Balochistan National Party (BNP) is the largest opposition party in Balochistan which came under severe fire during the military regime of General Pervez Musharraf. The party’s chief, Sardar Akhtar Mengal, a former chief minister of Balochistan, was arrested and literally put into an ‘iron cage’ fore more than one year. Hundreds of NBP leaders were arrested, their names were put on the Exit Control List (ECL) and bank accounts were frozen.

The BNP quit its seats in the Balochistan Assembly and both houses of the country’s parliament in protest against the killing of Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti, a former Baloch governor and a chief minister, in a military operation on August 26, 2006.

Later on, the BNP boycotted the general elections of 2008 and adopted a hardliner approach towards the country’s polity. A party known for its demand for maximum provincial autonomy to the smaller provinces of Pakistan, BNP today stands for the right of self-determination for the gas-rich Balochistan province.

VIEW: Another nail in the coffin

Sunday, 18 July 2010 13:19 Articles - Sheikh Asad Rahman

Habib Jalib’s murder is another nail in the coffin for Balochistan-Centre reconciliation. Habib was a man from a simple background who rose to prominence as a Baloch nationalist leader through hard work and an undying struggle for Baloch rights. He was a person who had no truck with militancy even when he was jailed numerous times by the state for his so-called anti-state activities. He stuck to the peaceful struggle for Baloch national rights. A lawyer by profession, an ex-senator, secretary general of the BNP-M, he had researched the Baloch issues, especially those pertaining to national identity, unity and integration. A democrat to the core, he was no sardar or nawab, but a humble person with a vision for a democratic, prosperous Pakistan, where the rights of all the diverse nationalities that live in the territories of Pakistan are ensured. His murder is a not only a great loss to the people of Balochistan, but also to the federation.

Silencing the Moderate Voice

Sunday, 18 July 2010 13:10 Rashed Rehman

The assassination of the moderate nationalist, secretary general of the Balochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M), Habib Jalib Baloch, in broad daylight in Quetta reflects what may be an emerging pattern in the conflict-ridden, largest but poorest province of Pakistan. Three days before Jalib’s death, the assassination of another moderate nationalist leader, Maula Bux Dasti of the National Party, proved to be a portent of things to come.

Mengal accuses government agencies of killing Baloch nationalists

Saturday, 07 August 2010 12:50

QUETTA: Sardar Akhtar Mengal, president of the Balochistan National Party and a former chief minister of the province, on Saturday accused the government and its functionaries of carrying out target killings of Baloch leaders and activists.

Addressing a public rally at Manan Chowk of Quetta on Saturday over the telephone from Dubai, he said Habib Jalib had been killed by those who believed that he was a hurdle in the way of their vested interests and evil desires.

BNP party workers took out a rally from Liaquat Park and marched up to Manan Chowk to listen to Mengal’s speech.

Baloch and Sindhi Diaspora demonstrate against the murder of Habib Jalib

Tuesday, 27 July 2010 17:26

Press Release

Baloch Human Rights Council and World Sindhi Congress held a demonstration in front of the British Prime Minister’s official residence at 10 Downing Street London on Sunday 25 July 2010 to express their anguish against the brutal murder of prominent Baloch politician Habi Jalib Secretary General of Balochistan National Party by Pakistan Army’s proxy death squad.

Mengal accuses government agencies of killing Baloch nationalists

Tuesday, 03 August 2010 17:22

BNP party workers took out a rally from Liaquat Park and marched up to Manan Chowk to listen to Mengal’s speech.

The party workers carried banners and placards with pictures of Habib Jalib and Liaquat Mengal, who were assassinated a few weeks ago. The rally was held against the killing of Baloch leaders and the non-recovery of missing persons.