QUETTA: The Balochistan government on Tuesday registered a case against tribal leader Mir Shafiq Mengal in connection with the murder of eight Levies personnel in Balochistan’s Khuzdar district last week, an official said.

An officer from the Balochistan government’s Home and Tribal Affairs department who requested anonymity told Dawn that the FIR was lodged against Mengal in relation to the murder of the eight personnel.

“Another 100 armed men — some of them identified and others unidentified — were also booked for attacking the Levies checkpost,” he said.

He added that the FIR was registered at the Wadh Police Station under the Pakistan Protection Ordinance (PPO).

No group has so far claimed the attack which took place on Sunday near Wadh area, some 70 kilometres south of Balochistan’s Khuzdar town. The incident had taken place at the Johar checkpost on the Quetta-Karachi National Highway.