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Sardar Khudadad Khan Gabol owned vast land in Karachi (the economic capital of Pakistan) during the British Raj. His descendents currently own vast acres of land across the nation, including The Quaid-e-Azam International Airport of Karachi and the land around Quaid-e-Azam Mausoleum. Allah Bakhsh Gabol, the son of Sardar Khudadad Khan Gabol, was the leader of the Congress Party, and was the first Deputy Speaker of the Provisional Assembly of Sindh from 1937 to 1938, the Mayor of Karachi (twice) and elected to the parliament several times. The grandsons of Sardar Allah Bakhsh Gabol filed a case in the Supreme Court of Pakistan to change the name of Quaid-e-Azam International Airport to Gabol Airport as the Government of Pakistan has failed to pay the value of the land to the Gabol family, but there is much opposition from other Baloch tribes due to inter tribal rivalry and the government has not felt the need for a name change.
The tribe has great political and government influence in Pakistan. Apart from Nabil Gabol, and his grandfather, the late Abdul Sattar Gabol, son of Allah Bakhsh Gabol and Nabil Gabol's uncle, had been a Federal Minister twice in 1970s during the age of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. After qualifying as a barrister from Lincoln's Inn he held various government portfolios including Minister of Labour, manpower and health. He represented his country at various international forums, including the United Nations.
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