On 2nd August 1974, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was in Quetta to deliver a speech at a public gathering. This was the period when Mr. Bhutto had dismissed the elected government of National Awami Party (NAP) in Balochistan. A military operation was underway in Balochistan, in which large number of Baloch people had been killed. In response, Majeed Langove and his friends had decided to directly eliminate Mr. Bhutto. He only had an old Russian hand grenade to carry out his mission. He climbed on a tree and waited for Mr. Bhutto to arrive. But while approaching his target the grenade exploded in his hand and he got martyrdom. But the event of 1974 is immersed in the minds of Baloch political and armed activists to this date. Majeed Baloch’s attack was not a failure instead its implications have been felt years later, and these have given birth to a deadly entity in Baloch resistance, which is today known as Majeed Brigade.
The Legend: Martyr Majeed Baloch
