The Council also regulates the conduct of lawyers and helps in the administration of justice.
The Balochistan Bar Council consists of Chairman Executive Committee[2] & Vice Chairman,[3] both elected by Members of Balochistan Bar Council each year and these Members are elected by the advocates from different constituencies across the Balochistan Province.
Members serve a term of five years, beginning on January 1, with elections held each November to fill seats of those whose terms will expire in the following January.
On 8 August 2016, the President of the Bar Association, Bilal Anwar Kasi, was assassinated on his way to the courthouse in Quetta.
The attack killed more than 90 people, who were mostly legal colleagues from the Bar Association who had come to mourn the death, and injured at least 50 people.