Popular Front for Armed Resistance
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Popular Front for Armed Resistance, or PFAR, was founded in 1960s and active until 1973 in Pakistan
. It was run by Baluchi
tribal separatist groups, which carry out serial bomb attacks. In 1974 at Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
, the group announced and end to the insurgency, which had by that time claimed the lives of 5,300 Baluchi fighters and 3,300 army personal. As a result, this made some 20,000 Baluchi tribesmen pick up arms against the Pakistani Army.
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
. It was run by Baluchi
Baloch people
The Baloch or Baluch are an ethnic group that belong to the larger Iranian peoples. Baluch people mainly inhabit the Balochistan region and Sistan and Baluchestan Province in the southeast corner of the Iranian plateau in Western Asia....
tribal separatist groups, which carry out serial bomb attacks. In 1974 at Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was 9th Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1973 to 1977, and prior to that, 4th President of Pakistan from 1971 to 1973. Bhutto was the founder of the Pakistan Peoples Party — the largest and most influential political party in Pakistan— and served as its chairman until his...
, the group announced and end to the insurgency, which had by that time claimed the lives of 5,300 Baluchi fighters and 3,300 army personal. As a result, this made some 20,000 Baluchi tribesmen pick up arms against the Pakistani Army.
See also
- Balochistan conflictBalochistan conflictThe Balochistan conflict is an ongoing conflict between Baloch nationalists and the Government of Pakistan over Balochistan, the country's largest province...
- Balochistan Liberation ArmyBalochistan Liberation ArmyThe Balochistan Liberation Army is a terrorist group based in Balochistan, a mountainous region within southern Iran and Pakistan. The organization is a participant in the Balochistan conflict and strives to establish an independent state of Balochistan, free of Pakistani and Iranian rule...
- Balochistan Liberation FrontBalochistan Liberation FrontThe Baloch Liberation Front is a political front and militant group 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...
- Baluch People's Liberation FrontBaluch People's Liberation FrontBaluch People's Liberation Front, also known as Baluch Awami Azadi Mahaiz or BPLF, was founded in the 1965. its aim was the independence of...
- Baloch Students OrganizationBaloch Students OrganizationThe Baloch Students Organization, or BSO was founded in 26 November 1967 as nationalist student organization in Pakistani part of occupied Balochistan. The main objectives of BSO were to organize and educate Baloch youth politically for the liberation of Balochistan.It this time BSO is divided into...
- Baloch Students Organization- AwamiBaloch Students Organization- AwamiThe Baloch Students Organization-Awami or BSO-Awami was founded in 1972, when it split from Baloch Students Organization . It supported Baluch People's Liberation Front, a militant organization in Balochistan against Pakistani control. The organisation was Marxist-Leninist in its ideology.Taj...