QUETTA: Police has registered a case Monday against Balochistan National Party –Mengal (BNP-M) chief, Sardar Akhtar Mengal in Khuzdar Police Station.
Abdul Qadir Sheikh, a police officer in Khuzdar told Dawn.com that FIR was registered on the application of Deputy Commissioner Khuzdar, Muhammad Ayaz Mandokhail.
Mr. Mandokhail has alleged in the application that Sardar Akhtar Mengal had threatened him on telephone.
"Sardar Mengal has issued serious life threats against me," Police official cited the wordings of Deputy Commissioner's application.
However, sources close to Sardar Akhtar Mengal have strongly contradicted the claims of Deputy Commissioner and termed it an attempt to press Sardar Mengal's voice for Baloch rights and resources.
"Sardar Mengal cannot be pressurised through such tactics", the sources said.
Sardar Akhtar Mengal is the Chief of Balochistan National Party and he remained the Chief Minister of the province during Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's second term in late 1990s until his provincial government was toppled by the then federal government.
He was elected as an MPA during this year’s general elections held in May this year from his home town Wadh.
His hometown Wadh and Khuzdar are considered to be the most sensitive areas of Balochistan, Pakistan's geographically largest province.