Mir Noor-ud-din Mengal

Mir Noor-ud-din Mengal
میر نورالدین مینگل
Mir Noor-ud-din Mengal Shaheed
Personal details
Born	13 July 1952 Kalat, Balochistan
Died	13 October 2010(2010-10-13) (aged 58) Kalat, Balochistan
Political party	Balochistan National Party Pakistan National Party Baloch Students Organization
Alma mater	University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore

Mir Noor-ud-din Mengal ((13 July 1952 – 13 October 2010) Urdu: میر نورالدین مینگل‎‎) was a senior Baloch politician who was active in Balochistan's political scene for nearly four decades, from 1970 to 2010. He belonged to the famed Zagar Mengal tribe and was the nephew of the Baloch National Poet Mir Gul Khan Nasir. His father's name was Mir Lal Bakhsh Mengal and he had seven siblings. His mother was a prominent member of the Gichki family from Mekran.

Mir Noor-ud-din was named after Sardar Noordin Mengal (an uncle of Sardar Attaullah Mengal and a close friend of Mir Lal Baksh Mengal who died in a road traffic accident near Kalat). He was brought up in his hometown of Kalat. His father was a prominent tribal and political figure of Balochistan while his uncle Gul Khan Nasir belonged to the top tier Baloch leadership along with Ghaus Bakhsh Bizenjo, Abdul Aziz Kurd and, later, Sardar Ataullah Khan Mengal and Khair Bux Marri. As a result of this he was exposed to politics from a very early age. This exposure instilled a nascent sense of political awareness in him which, with age, kept growing.

Mengal passed high school from Kalat and after matriculating from Noshki, enrolled in F.Sc Pre-Engineering in Government Science College, Quetta.