Akhtar Mengal questions state strategy, warns of deepening crisis in Balochistan
Feb 15, 2026
Mengal said repeated attempts to subdue dissent through military operations, arrests and enforced disappearances had only deepened the divide between the federation and Baloch citizens. Quoting revolutionary poet Habib Jalib, he remarked that Balochistan was not simply "burning" but had already been reduced to ashes.