ISLAMABAD - Sardar Akhtar Mengal an estranged Baloch leader, who had also remained Chief Minister of Balochistan, will appear before the Supreme Court on Thursday (today) regarding the target killings and human rights violations in the province.
Balochistan National Party President Sardar Akhtar Mengal arrived in Islamabad from London on Wednesday to record his statement about the worsening law and order situation in Balochistan before a three-member bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry.
Mengal, leader Balochistan National Party (BNP-Mengal) was arrested in September 2006, alongwith around 700 other political workers, in a government crackdown in Balochistan.
He was held because he was planning to hold a long march against the then Musharraf regime. He was reportedly produced in court in an “iron cage”.  He was released on May 9, 2008.
Akhtar Mengal has submitted a miscellaneous petition in the Supreme Court, in which he claimed that law-enforcement agencies were carrying out raids from time to time in different villages of Wadh and Khuzdar as well as throughout Balochistan.
He said that no case was registered against the personnel of law-enforcement agencies regarding the illegal abduction of Baloch people.
Akhtar stated in the petition that he approached different agencies as well as police station for the registration of cases but they refused to do so.
“Under such circumstances since he was interested party and would highlight certain facts, which were not brought by anyone before the court so far.”
He has requested the court to allow him to appear before it to record his statement regarding Balochistan issue.
The court on September 20th directed the law-enforcement agencies to provide full security to the Baloch leader.