Gul Khan Naseer (Balochi:میر گل خان نصیر; Urdu: میر گل خان نصیر) also known as Malek o-Sho'arā Balochistan (Balochi:ملک‌ شعراء بلوچستان; Urdu:ملک‌ شعراء بلوچستان); 14 May 1914 – 6 December 1983) was a Pakistani politician, poet, historian, and journalist from Balochistan.

[citation needed] During his second year at Islamia College, a piece of coal went into his eye, causing him to leave education and return to Quetta.

[2] When he went to Lahore, Nasir saw the students taking part in different sports so he joined the college football team.

In 1939, during an annual session of KSNP in which Mir Ghaus Bakhsh Bizenjo was also taking part as a representative of a Karachi-based political party, some armed men, allegedly sent by the local sardars tried to disrupt the rally by firing at the participants.

Paul Titus and Nina Swidler in their article "Knights Not Pawns: Ethno-Nationalism and Regional Dynamics in Post-Colonial Balochistan" write: The Khan attempted to play off nationalist and sardari differences by maintaining his authority as the traditional head of the Balochi tribes while appealing to the leaders of the Balochi nation.

This was not always possible, and by 1939 the activities of the nationalists had so antagonized the sardars and British that they pressured the Khan to declare KSNP illegal in Kalat State.

In March 1946, for example the Balochi activist poet Gul Khan Nasir was expelled from Kalat State following complaints to the agent to the Governor-General in Balochistan from the Badini, Jamaldini and Zagar Mengal sardars.

They claimed that Nasir and other activists had created disturbances in the town of Noshki by making speeches charging that the sardars were appropriating and selling local residents' wheat rations.

Both Gul Khan and Ghaus Bakhsh thought that joining the ML would provide them the platform they needed to raise the voice for Kalat's rights.

It was also during that period that Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti was sacked from his position as the Minister of State for Interior of Pakistan and arrested.

[citation needed] During 1960–1970, the National Awami Party or NAP presented strong resistance to the Ayub Regime and for this reason, its leaders were constantly in and out of jail.

[citation needed] In this decade Ataullah Mengal rose to the top of the Baloch leadership because of his personality and Khair Bakhsh Marri also earned a lot of fame because of his political philosophy.

[citation needed] Nasir won a seat in the Provincial Assembly after defeating Nabi Bakhsh Zehri of the Muslim League Qayyum group Chaghi.

[citation needed] Gul Khan Nasir was a Senior Minister in this government and held the portfolios of Education, Health, Information, Social Welfare and Tourism.

[citation needed] After some time, Ghaus Bakhsh Bizenjo had a falling out with Wali Khan over the Saur Revolution of Afghanistan.

[citation needed] Ghaus Bakhsh and Gul Khan left the NDP and formed the Pakistan National Party or PNP.

Even though Gul Khan had joined Mir Ghaus Bakhsh's party, he was of the opinion that the Baloch should not be pushed into another term of turmoil by pitting them against the Martial Law Regime but rather they should be educated, trained, and made ready for the future conditions that might change the situation and geography of the subcontinent.

[citation needed] But Mir Ghaus Bakhsh Bizenjo thought that Martial Law should be fought head-on to make democracy in Pakistan stronger.

After the lapse of some time, Mir Gul Khan tendered his resignation and concentrated all of his abilities towards his literary work.

Wáhde pa ĝaríbáñ ki jaháñ tang bibít Láp húrak, badan lúč pa badrang bibít Haq int ča čušeñ wár o azábeñ zindá Máří bisučant, sar birawant, jang bibít When the world starts to constrict around the poor man His mutilated naked form is left to fend for his hungry gut Then it's better from this life of misery and torture If war ensues, heads roll & lavish palaces are burnt to the ground His books include: Gul Khan Nasir was posthumously awarded Sitara-i-Imtiaz (President's Award) in 2001 for his literary services.

[citation needed] It was only after his condition became so bad that he could not leave his bed that he was taken to Karachi, where doctors, after checking him, gave him only a few days to live.

[15][16][17]Five notebooks of Gul Khan Nasir's Baluchi poetry in his own hand are held by SOAS Archives (MS 380635).