Akhtar Mengal

Sardar Akhtar Mengal  is a former Chief Minister of the province of Balochistan in Pakistan. He is the president of the Baloch political party in the province, the Balochistan National Party (BNP), and the son of prominent politician, Sardar Ataullah Mengal

Mengal was arrested in September 2006, along with around 700 other political workers, in a government crackdown in Balochistan. He was held because he was planning to do a long march against the Musharaf regime. He was reportedly produced in court in an "iron cage".

He was released on May 9, 2008 and all charges against him were dropped by the Government of Sindh. The Balochistan government withdrew all cases, including those of sedition, against Sardar Akhtar Mengal, but Mengal’s Balochistan National Party (BNP-Mengal) termed the action a “cosmetic measure taken by a powerless provincial government”. The actual centres of power in the country were the military and the intelligence agencies, he said,adding that the establishment did not support cooperation between political forces and did not want Mengal and hundreds of BNP leaders released.

The Balochistan National Party was holding a demonstration protesting the delay in Ahktar Mengal's release when word of Mengal’s release reached them.
To express their pleasure, they distributed sweets on the occasion. Addressing party workers, BNP's acting president Jahan Zeb Jamaldini and Secretary General Habib Jalib demanded the release of all detained political leaders and workers, an end to military operations in Balochistan and the recovery of missing persons. They vowed that they would continue their fight against the feudal system.


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Sardar Ataullah Khan Mengal

Sardar Ataullah Khan Mengal popularly known as Sardar Ataullah Mengal, is a well known political figure of Pakistan hailing from Balochistan.He has been campaigning a nationalist and separatist movement in Pakistan for over four decades. He is the head of the Mengal tribe. He was born in 1929 in Wadh, became the first Chief Minister of Balochistan during Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto's Premiership from May 1, 1972 to February 13, 1973.

In 1969 Mengal along with other Baloch friends joined the National Awami Party (Wali) of Khan Wali Khan and developed a close friendship with Wali Khan over the next decade. Elected to the provincial Assembly in what was a NAP sweep of Baluchistan he was elected Chief Minister by his party. In his short time as Chief Minister he pushed through many initiatives, in which the province's first university, medical college and board of secondary education were set up as well as the first industrial city of the province, in Hub. Despite his best efforts the NAP government was plunged into several crises which culminated with his governments dismissal. The first of which was when the Baluchistan police department, mostly officered by people from Punjab or were Punjabis. As there was a provision that employees in the federating provinces would return to their province of origin after the dissolution of the One Unit. Most of the officers insisted on leaving this was despite the fact, Sardar Ataullah Mengal as chief minister moved a resolution in the Balochistan Assembly to do away with the domicile category and suggested that those who had spent several generations in the province should be treated as locals (Rahman 2006). It was later on alleged that the officers were incited to leave through the efforts of PPP supporters and the then Chief Minister of Punjab Ghulam Mustafa Khar. Unable to exercise any effective authority Ataullah Mengal turned to the Baloch Student Organisation to assist in security. This in addition to a subsequent intra tribal conflict that broke out (which again Baloch Nationalists believe was fermented by the Interior Minister at the time), as well as the discovery of arms in the Iraqi embassy and Nawab Akbar Bugti's declaration of the London Plan and arms shipment from Iraq to dismember Pakistan by the National Awami Party was used as a pretext for the dismissal of the Baluchistan provincial government. Mengal and his colleagues, including Ghaus Bux Bizenjo and Nawab Khair Bakhsh Marri were arrested along with other NAP colleagues. It was during this time that one of Ataullah Mengal's sons, Asadullah Mengal, was killed and taken away by intelligence agencies in Karachi outside the home of the Mazari tribal chief Mir Balakh Sher Mazari.

The tribunal known as the Hyderabad tribunal was used to convict them despite it's dubious legality and now discredited work. Late Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, the then prime minister of Pakistan, suppressed the insurgency in Baluchistan by using its air force and with the cooperation of the regime of the Shah of Iran. Some tribals, however, did not join the revolt and collaborated with the government in suppressing their co-tribals. Among the tribals who collaborated with the government and the Pakistani military-intelligence establishment were the Jamalis, led by the family of Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali, who was premier of Pakistan just before Shaukat Aziz.

After the ouster of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto's government by General Zia-ul Haq, negotiations for the winding up of the Hyderabad tribunal and the release of all detainees was initiated leading to their eventual release in 1979. By this time a clear divide between Wali Khan and his friends Ataullah Mengal and Ghous Bux Bizenjo. Mengal and many other Baloch Nationalists increasingly believed that the Army was responsible for a brutal military operation and that they should be opposed by force, whereas Wali Khan felt more personal bitterness towards Zulfiqar Bhutto as he felt Bhutto had ordered his assassination on more than one occasion. This divide turned into a total split when Ataullah Mengal allied himself with Khair Bakhsh Marri and attempted to take over the National Democratic Party (a successor to the then banned NAP). Sardar Sherbaz Khan Mazari ,President of the National Democratic Party and a champion for the Baloch cause tried to reconcile these differences but did not succeed. When this attempt failed Ataullah Mengal left the party. He subsequently went into exile and took sanctuary in the UK, where he established contact with the authorities of the erstwhile USSR through the regime in Kabul and received financial and logistics support from Moscow.

When the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), through Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), trained and armed the Afghan mujahideen and other Islamic fundamentalist elements and used them to bleed the Soviet troops in Afghanistan, the Marris and the Mengals kept away from the anti-Soviet jihad and helped the KGB, the Soviet intelligence agency, and the KHAD, the Afghan intelligence agency, in the collection of intelligence regarding the activities of the CIA and the ISI on the Pakistani side of the border.

Sardar Ataullah Mengal returned to Balochistan in the mid-1990s, after which he formed the Balochistan National Party, which emerged as the largest political party in the province. Mengal's youngest son, Sardar Akhtar Mengal served as the Chief Minister of Balochistan in 1997, during the premiership of Nawaz Sharif.

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Dr, Allah Nazar Baloch

Dr. Allah Nazar was born on 2 October 1968 in a remote area of Awaran, called Mehi, Mashkay and in 1979, he sought admission in his home town Mehi,Mshkay, Awaran,after matriculation from high school in 1986, he went to Kech Turbat. For higher education in 1987 he took admission in medical department of Atta Shad Degree College .He passed F.Sc (pre-medical) in 1989. It is not denyin the fact that he is smart and honest in his goals. Due to his hard work,1992 he secured a medical seat in Bolan Medical College Quetta. It was here that he got a gold medal in Gynecology in 1999. Dr. Baloch is sincere with his objective. In the period of his studies, he observed the deprivation and backwardness in Balochistan which he blamed on Pakistan.Despite benefiting from education at Government colleges he still mainted a hatred for the Federal Government of PAkistan. Initially, he hated Pakistan because he was felt discrimination by the Pakistani establishment with Baloch. He wanted to evacuate Baloch students from loss and danger

He was arrested by Pakistani army for speaking up against the Army and government or perhaps demanding the rights of Baloch people. He was tortured so badly that he couldn't even stand on his feet. Once he was released from military captivity he was sure that being a part of Pakistan is not the fate of Baloch people. Thirty-eight-year-old Dr Allah Nazar Baloch a former chairman of the Baloch Student's Organisation (BSO) took arms to fight for an independent Balochistan. His supporters believe, that Balochistan should get a greater share of royalties of natural resources. Dr Nazar is currently believed to be the top leader of the Balochistan Liberation Front (BLF), an organisation that advocates the freedom of Balochistan.

Nawab Nowroz Khan

Nawab Nauroz/Nowroz Khan, commonly known by Balochs as Babu Nowroz, was the head of the Zarakzai tribes of Balochistan. He started an armed struggle against the Pakistani government for liberation of Baloch lands (Balochistan). He was later arrested by the Pakistani army while he came for negotiations to the army. He and his followers, including his sons and nephews, were taken to Hyderabad Jail, where he along with his sons and nephews was hanged at a ripe age of 87.

Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti

Nawab Akbar Shahbaz Khan Bugti (July 12, 1927–August 26, 2006) was the Tumandar (head) of the Bugti tribe of Baluch and served as Minister of State for Interior and Governor of Balochistan Province in Pakistan. He received his early education from the towering personality of Allama I. I. Kazi. An Oxford-educated man, he was a towering personality in Baloch politics for more than five decades.

After an armed struggle started in Balochistan in 2004, Bugti was widely perceived as a leader but went underground in 2005. On August 26, 2006, after several attempts were made on his life in the preceding months, he was killed in his cave in Kohlu, about 150 miles east of Quetta, leading to widespread unrest in the area, where he is widely regarded as a hero and martyr.
With a wide following that crossed tribal lines among ethnic Baloch groups, the contradictions in this western educated tribal leader roused strong emotions, both positive and negative. Despite making harsh decisions at times, he was considered a pacifist by many and certainly did not espouse a violent path in his early political career. In recent years, he was accused by the Pakistani government of being a warlord and running a well-organized militia, sometimes thought to be the shadowy Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) with members numbering in the thousands. The BLA allegedly ran dozens of militant guerrilla training camps. While campaigning from the mountain ranges of Dera Bugti, he was, according to the Pakistani government, directing a “Omar Mukhtar, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara” style guerrilla war. In July 2006, Pakistani president General Musharraf targeted him through aerial bombing, using air force jets and gunship helicopters. The leader of Balochistan National Party, Sardar Akhtar Mengal said, "The increase in bomb attacks in the Bugti and Marri areas are meant to target Baloch nationalist leader Nawab Akbar Bugti and his associates" and called upon the international community to take note of the situation.

With names such as The Tiger of Balochistan, The Trade Unionist, or Gas Man (supposedly having ownership of many gasfields), he was a towering figure in the Baloch world. The longstanding conflict in Balochistan stems from the quantum of autonomy the province was promised when they joined Pakistan in 1947 and then under the 1973 Pakistani constitution. Today a large faction continues to campaign, sometimes violently, for an autonomy which Balochistan's citizens believe to be their due under the promises made to them by various Pakistani leaders. The BLA is painted by the Pakistani government as a "great threat" to law and order in Balochistan and was recently banned by the Government of Pakistan as well as by the United Kingdom.
Akbar Bugti was the son of Nawab Mehrab Khan Bugti and a grandson of Sir Shahbaz Khan Bugti. He was born in Barkhan on July 12, 1927. He was educated at Oxford, England and Aitchison College, Lahore. It is alleged that he committed his first murder when he was only 12 and that he had several men killed to avenge the assassination of his son, (Salal Bugti).Nawab Akbar Bugti was elected in a by-election to the National Assembly of Pakistan in May 1958 to fill the vacancy created as a result of the assassination of the incumbent, Dr Khan Sahib, and sat on the government bench as a member of the ruling coalition.Bugti (Republican) served as Minister of State (Interior) in the government of Prime Minister Malik Sir Feroz Khan Noon (Republican) from September 20, 1958, to October 7, 1958, when the cabinet was dismissed on the declaration of Martial Law by President Iskander Mirza.He was arrested and convicted by a Military Tribunal in 1960 and subsequently disqualified from holding public office. As a result of his legal battles, he did not contest the 1970 general elections. Instead, he campaigned on behalf of his younger brother, Sardar Ahmed Nawaz Bugti, a candidate of the National Awami Party.However, Bugti developed differences with the NAP leadership, especially the new Balochistan Governor, Mir Ghaus Baksh Bizenjo. He informed the Federal Government and President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (Pakistan Peoples Party) of the alleged London Plan, which resulted in the dismissal of the provincial governor as well as the Chief Minister Sardar Ataullah Khan Mengal and his cabinet on February 14, 1973.The next day, the Federal Government appointed Bugti as the Governor of Balochistan, and the Pakistan Army was deployed in the province as part of a crackdown on the National Awami Party.He resigned on January 1, 1974, after disagreeing with the manner in which the Federal Government was carrying out policies in Balochistan. The army had deployed 100,000 men in Baluchistan and with the help of the Iranian airforce killed large numbers of Baluchis. Muhammad Raza Shah Pehlavi, the King of Iran, sent F-14 fighter jets and AH-1 gunships along with his pilots, to help Pakistan Army combat the insurgency. The Pakistani army is alleged to have killed more than 4000 Baluchis, mostly Marri insurgents, in these operations. Akbar Bugti is said to have supported the military action.There was a lull in his activities when General Rahimuddin Khan was appointed Governor of Balochistan in 1978. Bugti remained silent throughout the course of Rahimuddin's rule, which was often characterized by hostility towards the Baloch Sardars.

In 1988, he joined the Balochistan National Alliance and was elected Chief Minister on February 4, 1989. His government frequently disagreed with the Federal Government led by the Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto (Pakistan Peoples Party).Bugti resigned on August 6, 1990, when the provincial assembly was dissolved by Governor of Balochistan General Muhammad Musa Khan in accordance with the instructions of President Ghulam Ishaq Khan, who was exercising his authority by virtue of Article 58 (2 b) of the Constitution of Pakistan.The incoming caretaker, Chief Minister Mir Humayun Khan Marri, was his son-in-law.For the 1990 General Elections, Bugti formed his own political party, the Jamhoori Watan Party (JWP), being Balochistan's single largest party and was elected to the provincial assembly.In 1993, he was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan, representing the JWP in parliament. Also, in 1993, Nawab Bugti announced his candidacy to be President of Pakistan but later withdrew his candidacy and announced his support of the eventual winner, Sardar Farooq Ahmed Khan Leghari. In 1997, Nawab Bugti was re-elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan, representing the JWP.Bugti was involved in struggles, at times armed ones, in Balochistan in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. He led the current movement in Balochistan for greater autonomy. He was the public face and provided political support for the movement while his grandson, Brahamdagh Khan Bugti, led the Bugti tribesmen.

Death:- On Saturday August 26, 2006, around 2230 hrs (PST), Bugti was killed in a bombing operation that caused the cave roof to collapse on him. His location was traced through the satellite phone he was using, and Pakistani secret service agencies pin-pointed his location. (It is not clear if he was pinpointed through a satellite phone) The news of his death was broken to the media by Makhdoom Amin Fahim, leader of Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarians.Pakistani President, Gen Pervez Musharraf, has termed his death a victory for Pakistanis and congratulated the secret service chief who carried out this operation. Pakistan's Information Minister Mohammad Ali Durrani, confirmed that the operation included both air and ground assault. In a short telephonic interview made to a private television network, Pakistani Information Minister said that Bugti's death occurred as the cave he was in collapsed.There have been stories reported in the press that Akbar Bugti's otherwise Marri allies, who apparently were still embittered by his support of the 1970s military operation against them, exposed his hiding place to the Army, who surrounded the area and sent in a few senior officers in charge of the operation along with a Bugti guide into the Nawab's cave to negotiate a surrender. Given Akbar Bugti's renowned stubbornness and non-compromising attitude, it is thought that Bugti or his associates detonated explosives in the case, killing all present inside, including the army negotiators and Akbar Bugti himself. Thus creating a legacy that Bugti was a 'martyr' for Baluch rights and freedom.On August 24, 2006, under controversial circumstances, some Bugti tribesmen announced an end to the Nawabi system and requested the handing over of Nawab Bugti to authorities. His property was seized, and he was declared as a "proclaimed offender.
Bugti's death was followed by rioting by hundreds of students from the state-run Balochistan university. As the news flashed across television screens in Pakistan, the government deployed Rangers and paramilitary forces across major cities to prevent a backlash and impose a curfew in the provincial capital, Quetta. Security arrangements for the Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf have been beefed up to the highest level, and his movement has since been very restricted, fearing a retaliatory attack. Security arrangements have been further enhanced in and around all airports of Pakistan. The media both in Pakistan and outside have severely condemend the killing as the "[m]ilitary’s second biggest blunder after Bhutto’s execution" and calling it a "political nightmare". Others have likened it to the East Bengal crisis of 1971 where military violence eventually led to the Bangladesh Liberation War.On August 27, 2006, some private media broadcasted news that Bugti's grandsons, Bramdakh and Mir Ali, are still alive, but no official confirmation has been made.On September 1, 2006 Bugti was buried in Dera Bugti with three locks on cofin, next to the graves of his son and brother. His family, who wanted a public funeral in Quetta, did not attend the burial, their protest against his body was locked in cofin .This is one of the few instances in Asia of a government killing a political leader who had previously served in high official positions as a cabinet minister, Senator, and Governor.

Family:- Akbar Bugti (right) and his Grandson in the mountains of Balochistan.Nawab Mehrab Khan Bugti, son of Sir Shahbaz Khan Bugti had two sons, Nawab Akbar Bugti and Sardar Ahmed Nawaz Bugti. Nawab Akbar Bugti had three wives and six sons and two daughters. His Baloch wife gave birth to four sons: Nawabzada Saleem Khan Bugti, Nawabzada Talal Khan Bugti, Nawabzada Salal Khan Bugti, and Nawabzada Rehan Khan Bugti. Of these four sons, three have died. Nawabzada Salal Bugti was murdered in a shootout in Quetta by the rival Bugti Kalpar sub clan in 1993. Nawab Akbar Bugti's second wife was a Pathan; she gave birth to Nawabzada Jameel Khan Bugti. Nawab Akbar Bugti's third wife was Iranian, and she gave birth to Shahzwar Khan Bugti. Jamil Akbar Bugti, Talal Akbar Bugti, and Shahzwar Khan Bugti are the surviving sons of Nawab Akbar Bugti. Sardar Nawab Akbar Bugti's daughter is married to Mir Balakh Sher Mazari's son who is the chieftain of the neighbouring Mazari tribe. Sardar Ahmed Nawaz Bugti had four sons: Tanvir Khan, Anees Khan, Farooq Khan, and Naveed Khan. Tanvir Khan, who was the oldest, also passed away in 1991 due to natural causes.The Bugti Grandchildren consist of Brahamdagh Khan Bugti, Mir Aali Khan Bugti, Washane Bugti, Ahmad Marri, Muhammad Marri, Sarang Khan Bugti ,Taleh Bugti, Shahzain Bugti, Gohram Bugti, Tabish Bugti.

Nawab Khair Bakhsh Marri

Nawab Khair Bakhsh Marri is a politician from Balochistan, Pakistan. He has been leading a nationalist and separatist in the country for the past four decades. He is also the head of his powerful Marri tribe.Nawab Khair Baksh Marri, a Marxist by conviction who believes in “movements of national liberation” went to Afghanistan after the communists took power there in 1979. He lived in Kabul while a large number of his tribesmen were located in a big camp near Kandahar in the heyday of the Saur Revolution where they faced hardships as the communists experienced difficulties.In 1989, the Pakistan Peoples Party government in Islamabad was already anticipating the fall of Najibullah's PDPA government and had set up a government of the mujahideen in exile in Peshawar. The following year, however, under the Pakistan Muslim League government, a move was set afoot by former Balochistan chief minister Mir Taj Mohammad Khan Jamali to bring Nawab Khair Baksh Marri, General Sherof Bijarani (Marri) and his men back from Afghanistan.After the Marris were brought back they were housed by the government of the day in a camp in the suburbs of Quetta. That is why the place was called a “camp”. The government demarcated the land, but did not go through the procedure of legalising the tribe’s ownership of it. It would therefore be wrong to say that the Marris were in illegal occupation of the camp. In fact they have become owners through the law of uninterrupted and unchallenged occupation. That these Marris were a disgruntled lot no one can deny. That they were fiercely loyal to Nawab Marri too cannot be denied. Therefore before further aggressive measures are taken in hand and house-to-house searches are made, these facts should be kept in mind so that the trouble in Balochistan is not compounded with more summary injustice.

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Sher Muhammad Marri

Sher Muhammad Bijarani (Marri) was a Baloch Nationalist tribal chief and militant. He fully favoured a struggle against Pakistan. He had very close link with Kabul, Tehran and Baghdad. He was the one who made a deal with Iraqi government in 1973, about an arms to be shared with Iranian Baloch groups and his own group. He was a famous literary person, he wrote many books. His famous book was "Balochi Kohnein Shahiri". He died in Delhi India and than his body was brought to his paternal land Kohlu.

Sher Muhammad Baloch was a Baloch nationalist tribal chief and militant. He was the first Baloch who gave the Baloch armed struggle a new shape by following the tactics of modern guerrilla warfare against the occupiers of Balochistan.
After the second conflict the Pakistani government sent the Army to build new garrisons in the key trouble areas of Baluchistan. Sher Mohammad Baluch led like-minded militants to start a guerrilla warfare against the establishment of these posts by creating its own posts of insurgency spreading over 45,000 miles (72,000 km) of land from the Mengal tribal area in the south to the Marri and Bugti tribal areas in the north. The insurgents bombed railway tracks and ambushed convoys. The Army retaliated by destroying vast areas of the Marri tribe. This insurgency ended in 1969 when Yahya Khan abolished the "One Unit" policy and the Balochs agreed to a ceasefire. This eventually led to the recognition of Baluchistan as the fourth province of West Pakistan in 1970.

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Mir Ghaus Bakhsh Bizenjo

Mir Ghaus Bakhsh Bizenjo was the Baloch politician in Balochistan, Pakistan. Mir Ghaus Bakhsh Bizenjo served as the Governor of Balochistan.Born at Nal in the Sardar Khail of the Bizenjo tribe. Educated in Karachi and Aligarh Muslim University. Bizenjo joined the Baloch politics in 1937, he eventually served as the President of Kalat State in 1946 - 1947.With Pakistan's formation he opposed the merger of Balochistan with Pakistan.
Politically he served as the Vice President of the ‘Ustman Gal’ and later in the National Awami Party(Wali) (NAP).He played a key role on the negotiations for the 1973 constitution and served as governor of Baluchistan under the shortlived NAP government. Aself made man, lifelong communist and secularist he opposed the NAP alliance with the Jamiat-Ulema Islam believing the NAP was ideologically closer to the Pakistan Peoples Party. The NAP Government was ousted on the orders of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in 1973. Bizenjo was arrested along with other NAP leaders as part of the hyderabad tribunal. During his ime in prison he was criticised for his alleged secret negotiations with the PPP government. After their release in 1978 Bizenjo clashed with Khan Abdul Wali Khan over the direction of the party. Breaking away from the party he eventually formed his own party under the name Pakistan National Party.

Bizenjo died in 11th August 1989. His sons remain active in Baloch politics.

Balach Marri

Mir Balach Marri was a prominent politician from Balochistan, Pakistan.
Mir Balach Marri was the son of prominent politician Nawab Khair Bakhsh Marri. Mir Balach Marri's brother Mir Ghazan Marri is also a prominent politician. Mir Balach Khan was fighting for baloch liberty and was killed in 2007 in the mountains of Noshki near Afghanistan Border. He left parliament because he believed that it is not the solution to the balochs problem. He wanted Balochistan as an independent country.

Dad Shah

Mir Dad Shah or Mir Daad Shah was a farmer who lived in Nillag village of Iranian Balochistan in the 1950's. Due to his dislike of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, he rose up against the government. Daad Shah's wife, Bibi Hatun, also fought with him. Dad Shah was support by Iraq through local Balochi politician Mir Abdi, who went into self-exile in Iraq. Dad Shah killed tribal chief Sardar Muhammad Darani of Zahedan. Sardar Darani was the commander-in-chief of the Zahedan area at the time. In 1957, Daad Shah’s tribal chiefs betrayed. His chiefs called for him to come to negotiations where he was killed in a gun battle with Iranian Forces. Mir Abdi was persuaded by the Shah to return to Iran and gave him privileges to stop his political campaign against Iran.
The struggle came to an end by an agreement between Iran and Iraq, where Iran stopped support for the Kurdish struggle in Iraq, while Iraq deprived the Baloch from theirs. However, Iraq secretly supported the separatists until the 1980s, when the Iraq-Iran War and Iraq openly gave Balochi groups a large amount of financial and military aid.

Brahamdagh Khan Bugti

Nawab Brahamdagh Khan Bugti is the son of Nawabzada Rehan Khan Bugti and the grandson of Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti.He currently leads the Bugti tribe of Balochistan (Pakistan) after the death of his grandfather who was killed during an army operation, and is involved in leading an armed rebellion against the Pakistani government, said to be over "greater rights of the Baloch people". With the demise of the late Nawab, the insurgency seems to have been slowed down for the moment given rival Bugti factions (e.g. the Kalpars) now siding with the Pakistani government.
Recently he has changed the name of the "Jamoori Watan Party" to "Baloch Republican Party", who is fighting for the rights of Balochs and Balochistan. He is currently on self-exile in Europe.