Dr. Tara Chand is a former Provincial Minister of

Balochistan Balochistan ( ; bal, بلۏچستان; also romanised as Baluchistan and Baluchestan) is a historical region in Western and South Asia, located in the Iranian plateau's far southeast and bordering the Indian Plate and the Arabian Sea coastline. ...

Political career

Affiliated to the Balochistan National Party, Chand won election to the

Provincial Assembly of Balochistan The Provincial Assembly of Balochistan is a unicameral legislature of elected representatives of the Pakistani province of Balochistan, and is located in Quetta, the provincial capital. It was established under Article 106 of the Constitution of P ...

in 1997 from the solitary seat reserved for Hindus.''Detailed Results of Elections to the Provincial Assembly of Balochistan''
Undated. Election Commission of Pakistan He defeated Arjun Das Bugti, who had won the seat in the last three elections. His brother Nanak Singh, a Sikh convert, had been a local politician too.The Herald. Vol. 28 In July 2000, Chand fled Pakistan; he cited incessant harassment from local law enforcement after refusing to join the party floated by

Pervez Musharraf General Pervez Musharraf ( ur, , Parvez Muśharraf; born 11 August 1943) is a former Pakistani politician and four-star general of the Pakistan Army who became the tenth president of Pakistan after the successful military takeover of the ...

References

Balochistan MPAs 1997–1999 Living people Pakistani Hindus Year of birth missing (living people) {{Balochistan-MPA-stub