BNP Rejects Police Disclosure over Jalib’s Killing

The Baloch Hal News

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.

“Ijaz had taken the body of late Jalib to Provincial Sandeman Hospital soon after the incident and it is ironic that police investigators are accusing him of  the murder,” he said adding that police officers have been “shamelessly harassing” the family members of late Jalib since the incident took place. He said that the family members and close relatives of the slain Baloch leader also received threats. They are being mentally tortured and constantly harassed by police and other law enforcement agencies only to divert the attention from the real killers within the Government functionaries.

Two of the cousins of late Habib Jalib flanked Agha Hassan when he addressed the news conference and they categorically stated that Jalib was assassinated merely because he was opposed to the government for political reasons. Jalib had no enmity with any one and the police assertion of domestic or personal feud in ridiculous and none sense, Haji Ibrahim told newsmen on the sideline of the news conference.

He said that party is not satisfied with the police investigations and party demands to conduct an inquiry through United Nations.

“It was a political murder because Jalib had had no enmity with any one and police trying to conceal the truth because secret agencies and other government functionaries are involved in this offence,” said Agha Hassan adding that police had taken the both boys in custody some eight days a go for questioning.

Agha Hassan said the BNP had already rejected the judicial commission and police enquiry because we, the Baloch nationalists, have no faith on government and its institutions.

“We demands that humanitarian organizations and United Nations should intervene in Balochistan in order to normalize the situation because every passing day we are receiving bullet-riddle dead bodies and people are being forcefully disappeared,” he concluded.