the balochistan government immediately faced multiple crise,s the first of which was when the balochistan police department, mostly officered by people from punjab or khyber pukhtunkhwa. as there was a provision that employees in the federating provinces would return to their province of origin after the dissolution of the one unit. most of the officers insisted on leaving. despite this fact, sardar ataullah mengal as chief minister, moved a resolution in the balochistan assembly to do away with the domicile as a qualification and suggested that those who had spent several generations in the province should be treated as locals. it was later on alleged that the officers were incited to leave through the efforts of ppp supporters and the then chief minister of punjab ghulam mustafa khar.