Sana Ullah Baloch
Member of the Senate of Pakistan
In office
2003–2008
Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan
In office
15 February 1997 – 1999
Member of the Provincial Assembly of Balochistan
In office
13 August 2018 – 12 August 2023
GovernorAmanullah Khan Yasinzai
Personal details
ProfessionGovernance Expert, Parliamentarian, Researcher, Writer, Author,
Websitesanabaloch.com

Sanaullah Baloch (Urdu: ثناء اللہ بلوچ), is a Baloch nationalist leader from the Balochistan National Party (Mengal) (BNP-M). He is a former member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from 1997 to 1999 and the Senate of Pakistan from 2003 to 2008.

Mr. Baloch also served as a Parliamentary Secretary to the Interior and Narcotics Control Division in 1998. In addition, he served as a member of the Senate Function Committee on Government Assurances, Local Government and Problems of Less Developed areas.

As a member of the Senate of Pakistan and representative of Balochistan province, he introduced a constitutional amendment bill to abolish the concurrent legislative list to grant more autonomy to the provinces which led to the landmark 18th Constitutional Amendment in Pakistan.

Sanaullah Baloch was also appointed as a Member of Parliament special committee on Balochistan formed in September 2004, where he was the major architect of drafting and placing Balochistan's major political and economic issues before the committee.

In 2005, he was a participant at Stanford University's Draper Hills Summer Fellows on Democracy and Development at Stanford's CDDRL.[1]

Mr. Baloch speaking to a Seminar on Minority Rights Pakistan

He contributed number of articles[2] on ethnic politics, democracy, and nationalism. He mostly writes and speaks at national and international forums on the issue of ethnic politics in Pakistan. His first book was published in 2001. He has written, mainly about the politics and society of Balochistan, Pakistan in several leading South Asian English language newspapers and magazines, including Dawn, the News, and the Nation.

Mr. Baloch and CRC Sierra Leone Chairman and Members on a visit to Ghana meeting Senior Ministers, exchange ideas on Constitutional Reforms and Experiences

Mr. Baloch research and professional expertise are in the field of Democracy, Constitutionalism, Federalism, human rights and Ethnic Minorities in Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan. He delivered talks, lectures, seminars and presentations in world's renowned institutes, universities and think-tank organizations for senior government officials, youth, parliamentarians and members of constitutional bodies. He speaks, read and write English, Balochi, Persian, Pushto, Urdu, Brahvi languages.

References

  1. ↑ Stanford University. "2005-2006 Summer Fellows". Retrieved 13 July 2011.
  2. ↑ "Mr. Baloch's Article and Papers".
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