"Had Mir Gul Khan Nasir been born in Punjab he would’ve become Faiz Ahmed Faiz and if Faiz had been brought up in Balochistan, he would’ve become Gul Khan Nasir”.
– Habib Jalib
This picture shows prominent nationalists of Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Gul Khan Nasir, Mir Ghaus Baksh Bizenjo and Khan Abdul Wali Khan. Gul Khan Nasir was widely known as the King of the Poets of Balochistan. Soon after independence, Nasir and Bizenjo joined the Muslim League in hope to better represent Kalat in the new nation but left it after realising that they would never achieve their goals through it. Later they were part of the National Awami Party along with Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan and his son Khan Abdul Wali Khan of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. In the 1970s, Nasir held the portfolios of Education, Health, Information, Social Welfare and Tourism in the NAP government in Balochistan. Bizenjo was the governor. This government was dismissed by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and all three faced a tribunal convened for what became known as the Hyderabad conspiracy case.
