Quetta, May 4 -- President of the Balochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M), Sardar Akhtar Mengal, declared the beginning of a "politics of national resistance," criticising the failure of Pakistan's parliament, judiciary, and other state institutions to safeguard the rights of the Baloch people.

Speaking at a large party gathering at Shahwani Stadium on Friday night, Mengal said his party would no longer seek government permission to pursue its political activities, Dawn reported.

"When the government asks us not to stage protests, we demand that it shun its wrong policies that force people to hold protests," Mengal told supporters, according to Dawn. He questioned how the BNP-M could remain silent when the authorities were "dishonouri...