Balochistan Liberation Front

Balochistan Liberation Front

Infobox_Political_Party
name_english = Balochistan Liberation Front
name_native =
colorcode =
party_
leader = Sher Mohammad Marri
foundation = 1964
founder = Baluch
ideology = Greater Balochistan, Baluch Nationalism, Islamism, Religious Conservatism
headquarters = Pakistani Balochistan and Iranian Balochistan
international = Iraq and Soviet
members = Jumma Khan Marri Khair Bakhsh Marri Ataullah Mengal
website = [http://www.balochvoice.com/ www.balochvoice.com]
[http://www.balochwarna.org/ www.balochwarna.org]

The Balochistan Liberation Front (BLF) separatist group was founded by Jumma Khan Marri in 1964 in Damascus, and played an important role in the 1968-1980 insurgency in Pakistani Balochistan and Iranian Balochistan. The BLF had support from Arab nationalists leaders. "Mir Hazar Ramkhani," the father of Jumma Khan Marri, took over the group in the 1980s.

History

From 1968 to 1973, the BLF was supported by Iraq in the Iranian Baluch revoltFact|date=May 2008. Iraq reduced its support after Iranian Baluchi leaders made a deal with the Shah of IranFact|date=May 2008. Iraq kept its ties with Iranian Baluchi and Central BaluchiFact|date=May 2008. In 1973, Iraq supported the Baluchistan Liberation Front in a Central Baluchistan insurgency{ [fact. In the same year, Pakistani authorities discovered arms in the Iraqi embassy in Islamabad intended for the BLF's use in Balochistan. Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto dismissed the provincial government of Balochistan. The move offended the Baluch, who responded by ambushing Pakistani army convoys. Balochistan entered into insurgency, and Pakistan deployed over 80,000 troops in the Baluchi regionFact|date=May 2008.

In 1974, the Pakistani army started a widespread operation in Baluchistan, and have been accused of killing 15,000 civiliansFact|date=May 2008. BLF fighters who returned to defend their families and bury the dead were killed in subsequent bombings, killing 5,000 Baluchi fightersFact|date=May 2008. The survivors went to Afghanistan, where Iraq and the Soviet Union helped the BLF reorganize.

ee also

*Dad Shah
*Jundallah
*Balochistan Liberation Army
*Bugti militia
*Baloch Students Organization
*Baluch People's Liberation Front
*Popular Front for Armed Resistance
*Baloch Students Organization- Awami
*Baluchi Liberation Front
*Parrari

References

* Study of Revenge: The First World Trade Center Attack and Saddam Hussein's War Against America By Laurie MylroieSummary, ISBN 0844741698.
* Political Terrorism: A New Guide to Actors, Authors, Concepts, Data Bases, Theories, & Literature By Albert J. Jongman, Alex Peter Schmid, ISBN 1412804698

Links

* [http://paki.in/wtf/2008/04/23/baloch-liberation-from-whom/ WTF- Baloch Liberation; from whom?]
* [http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2007/07/bin_laden_and_the_baluchistan.html/ www.americanthinker.com/blog/2007/07/bin_laden_and_the_baluchistan.html]
* [http://www.google.co.uk/books?vid=ISBN0844741698&id=K27SO6L3qP0C&pg=PA71&lpg=PA71&ots=QEaE1uz5Pl&dq=baluchistan+liberation+front&sig=pIEIfYXzTv3rsEpVqsW9OhFD_cE#PPA70,M1]
* [http://www.google.co.uk/books?vid=ISBN1412804698&id=NgDks1hUjhMC&dq=baluchistan+Liberation+army]


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