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.

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‘He had received several bullets in his abdomen and chest which caused his death,’ hospital sources said. Assassins escaped from the site after committing
the crime.

Capital City Police Officer Ghulam Shabbir Sheikh said ‘An organisation previously had threatened Habib Jalib Baloch and police had offered him security but he
did not accept the offer.’

Soon after the incident, heavy contingents of Frontier Corps, police, Balochistan Constabulary and Anti-Terrorist Force were deployed at all sensitive areas and
mobile squads continued patrolling the roads of Quetta to avoid any untoward incident.

The news about assassination of BNP leader spread like jungle fire and shopkeepers closed down their shops on Jinnah Road, Shahra-e-Iqbal, Sariab Road,
Double Road, Satellite Town, bringing the commercial activities to a halt. Some unknown people attacked Iranian Consulate and Sessions Court buildings by
throwing stones that broke glasses of noticeboard and windows.

A large number of BNP activists, members of different nationalist parties and lawyers’ community rushed to the hospital soon after hearing the news.
Emotionally charged sympathisers of the Baloch leader wanted to take his body to the Governor’s House to protest against the killing. The police, however, did
not allow them to get closer to the Governor’s House at Zargoon Road.

However, later the body of BNP leader was brought to his home at Pirkaniabad in shape of a procession in an ambulance wrapped with party flag.
The funeral prayer was offered in Pirkaniabad which was attended by a large number of people, including BNP workers, lawyers and politicians.
Protests and shutter down strikes were also observed in other towns of Balochistan. All shops and business activities came to a standstill at Nushki as the news
reached there.

http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/Politics/15-Jul-2010/BNP-leader-shot-dead
Top Baloch leader Habib Jalib Baloch
Assassinated
By: Bari Baloch | Published: July 15, 2010

QUETTA – Unidentified gunmen shot dead former Senator and Central Secretary General of the Balochistan National Party
(BNP-Mengal) Habib Jalib Baloch Advocate in Quetta on Wednesday morning.
The assassination of BNP-Mengal leader triggered provincewide protests as angry mobs burnt tyres on roads, torched
several vehicles and observed shutterdown and wheeljam strikes in different towns while a person was killed and two others
wounded in a bomb blast at Khuzdar.

BNP-M announced 40-day mourning and three-day wheeljam and shutterdown strike across the province.
Habib Jalib, a senior Supreme Court lawyer, was busy in reading newspaper when three unknown armed men riding a
motorbike opened indiscriminate fire on him at his brother’s shop at Pirkaniabad in Sariab area. He received multiple bullet
wounds and was rushed to Civil Hospital, where he succumbed to his wounds.
Agencies Killed Habib Jalib:
Sardar Attaullah Mengal

The Baloch Hal News

 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.