QUETTA, June 16: The Balochistan National Party-Mengal will observe a ‘black day’ on Sunday and hold demonstrations on Monday to condemn a police crackdown aimed at ‘implicating the party’ in Thursday night’s killing of seven army soldiers.

The patron-in-chief of BNP-M, Sardar Ataullah Khan Mengal, blaming the government for the incident, said the killing of army personnel was meant to ‘suppress the party’s movement for the rights of the Baloch’.

Sardar Mengal, in an interview to a news agency, said: “We cannot understand how the attackers knew that army personnel, in civilian dress, were travelling in a train. And it’s amazing that they were targeted just 200 yards away from the governor’s and the chief minister’s houses.”