The Baloch: Mir Jafar Khan Jamali

Mir Jafar Khan Jamali. In 1943, on the invitation of Mir Sahib, the Quaid e Azam visited Quetta, the provincial headquarters of Balochistan. He had arranged such a massive reception for the Quaid that he proclaimed Mir Jaffar Khan Jamali and the Jamali tribe as the ‘gateway to Balochistan’.

Mir sahib devoted all his resources towards achieving the goal of a separate homeland for the Muslims and it would not be wrong to conclude that Mir Jaffar Khan Jamali and the Jamali tribe were indeed the ‘gateway to Balochistan’ as proclaimed by Jinnah. This lead to a Baloch Grand Jirga verdict in favor of Pakistan. Before independence, Mir Sahib had served numerous times as a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) from Jacobabad. Mir Jaffar Khan Jamali was the Vice-President of the Balochistan Muslim League and a Senior Leader of the Sindh Chapter of Muslim League

Mir Jafar Khan Jamali engaged Mr. Muhammad Ali Jinnah as a lawyer for a land property dispute with Khan Of Kalat and the British government. Mr. Jinnah won the case, this relationship then change to personal friendship with Mr. Muhammad Ali.

Mir Sahib met his creator on 7th April 1967, in Karachi and was laid to rest in his ancestral graveyard in Rojhan Jamali.

 Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto had suggested to the Jamali family to bury the body of Mir Sahib at the Quaid’s mausoleum in Karachi but this suggestion was turned down by the elders of the family stating that its rightful place is besides their ancestors at their ancestral graveyard. His nephew, Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali, was 13th Prime Minister of Pakistan. The district of Jafarabad, Balochistan is named after him.

The Baloch: Akbar Khan Bugti

Akbar Khan Bugti  (July 12, 1927–August 26, 2006)

* Nawab Akbar Khan was born in Barkhan

* Nawab Akbar Bugti was elected in a by-election to the National Assembly of Pakistan in May 1958

* AKber Bugti  served as Minister of State (Interior) in the government of Prime Minister Malik Sir Feroz Khan Noon from September 20, 1958, to October 7, 1958

* Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti remained Governor of Balochistan from 15 February 1973 to 3 January, 1974.

* Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti remained Cheif Minister of Balochistan from February 4, 1989 to August 6, 1990.

* 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, 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

* Akber Bugti was was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan in 1993 & 1997.

* On Saturday August 26, 2006, around 22:30 hrs (PST), Bugti was killed when a shell exploded in the cave in which his camp was set.

Akber Bugti with Different Pakistani Leaders:

Akber Bugti With Qaid-E-Azam

Akber Bugti With Bhuto

Akbar Bugti With Ataullah Mengal & Ghous Bux Bizenjo 

Akber Bugti With Benzir Bhuto

Akber Bugti With Nawaz Shareif

Akhter Mengal’s conditions for talks with Government

The BNP President, Sardar Akhtar Jan Mengal, has demanded immediate withdrawal of combat troops from Balochistan, an end to the custodial killing of political opponents and release of all missing persons in custody of the Government functionaries, police or other security agencies. Only after this, he and his party colleagues will consider holding talks with the Government normalizing situation in Balochistan.

 It is natural that no Baloch nationalist will hold talks under the prevailing conditions, particularly when the detained people are killed in custody. There should be an improvement in the situation and a better and congenial atmosphere should be created for talks finding solutions to the Baloch conflict. We have been saying the same for the past many years and suggested to the Government to create a proper political climate in Balochistan for holding meaningful talks or restoring normalcy. Besides Government functionaries, officers from the defence forces, no political leader worth the name is supporting the policies of the Government in Balochistan. Even the President of Pakistan offered no comments on Balochistan situation!

 The allies of the Government had condemned the target killing by the functionaries and custodial killing of political opponents. In a way, the Government and the entire state apparatus is completely isolated on this issue and being criticized from all corners, including the allies of the coalition Governments at the Centre and in the Province of Balochistan. The Senate Functional Committee had gone a step further asking the Government to stop treating Baloch political opponents as enemies of Pakistan. In such a case, they will definitely look towards other countries for help, the Committee argued. Thus the demands from the BNP President are just and legitimate and without fulfilling those conditions, it is nearly impossible that any one will come forward and hold talks with the Government or attend the All Parties Conference proposed by the Prime Minister.

We hope that the Prime Minister will announce certain measures before holding the APC or inviting the stake holders from Balochistan to sort out political and constitutional issues of Balochistan. The Baloch conflict has nothing to do with the so-called sense of deprivation, a term hated and deeply resented by the Baloch nationalists. Backwardness is rampant in Balochistan for more than two thousands years. It is not new or discovery by the Pakistani rulers. They are rightly demanding their political and constitutional rights for which they are protesting against the hostile policies of the Federal Government.


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