The Baluch People's
Liberation Front (BPLF), was formed by Mir Hazar Ramkhani, a prominent
Baluchi leader in 1976 after developing irreconcilable differences with
the dominant leadership of Baluch Students Organisation (BSO)
led by Sher Mohammed Marri. The differences emerged on the question of
strategies to be adopted.
The BPLF gained the support
of the Baluch Students Organisation-Awami, a product of an earlier split
within the Baluch Students Organisation. BPLF, a Marxist oriented outfit
was provided logistic support by the then Afghanistan government. Some of
its cadres were trained in Beirut by the Popular Front for the Liberation
of Palestine. It relied heavily on the support it received from the Afghan
authorities.
The BPLF did not possess
any command structure and was a loosely based outfit. In the 1970's as the
Pakistani security forces improved its counter-terrorist measures, the
BPLF was increasingly forced to fall back to the camps inside Afghanistan.
The current status of the outfit is not known.
