invoking the 1st amendment of the 1973 constitution the government charged wali khan and his colleagues under the hyderabad conspiracy case in 1976, although they were acquitted of the charge of the murder of ppp stalwart hayat khan sherpao, the decision to ban the nap was upheld by the courts. in addition to khan abdul wali khan, the case also implicated two governors, two chief ministers, scores of national and provincial parliamentarians, khan amirzadah khan, syed kaswar gardezi, habib jalib (urdu revolutionary poet) and mir gul khan nasir (balochi revolutionary poet/leader) and even some of bhutto’s former colleagues, many of whom were later re-elected and became federal or provincial ministers.