Akhtar Mengal

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Sardar Akhtar Mengal سردار اختر مینگل
Chief Minister of Balochistan
In office February 22, 1997 – June 15, 1998
Preceded by	Nawab Zulfikar Ali Magsi
Succeeded by	Mir Jan Mohammad Jamali
Nationality	Baloch
Political party	Balochistan National Party
Religion	Sunni Muslim

Sardar Akhtar Mengal (Urdu: سردار اختر مینگل ) is a former Chief Minister of the province of Balochistan in Pakistan. He is the president of the largest 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.^[1] He was held on terrorist charges and was reportedly produced in court in an "iron cage".^[1] He was released on May 9, 2008 and all charges against him were dropped by the Government of Sindh.

[edit] See also

• Akhtar Mengal
  Dr Tara Chand (politician)

[edit] Sources and references

• "The man in Iron Cage"
• "Akhter Mengal and his BNP"
• "Case against Akhter Mengal"