Islamabad, April 10 -- Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has been asked to tackle the Balochistan insurgency, which has been worsening day by day, despite attempts to resolve the issue.
The call came from a delegation of the National Party (NP), led by party president Dr Abdul Malik Baloch, amid the Balochistan National Party-Mengal's (BNP-M) sit-in, which on Wednesday entered its 12th consecutive day, according to the Express Tribune.
Nawaz Sharif, President of the reigning Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), has called for a "political solution" to the issues in Balochistan, and vowed to play a key political and democratic role in fostering peace in the province, which is gripped with turmoil, according to Dawn.
Sharif made...