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	The Stunning Investigative Story on the Birth of Balochistan Liberation Army
		It was also not clear as to why Iran would be interested in stirring trouble in Balochistan when it was faced by an imminent war from the American side and it needed all the allies it could muster on its side and one of those allies could possibly be Pakistan.
		It was also difficult to reconcile Iranian involvement in Balochistan with the fact that Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline, that is a crucial project for Iran, was in the final stages of negotiation and there seemed no logical point in sending mixed signals by creating difficulties in Balochistan.
		The present movement in Balochistan, led by BLA, PONAM and Baloch Ittehad is a mismatched concoction of ancient and modern.
	www.satribune.com /archives/200503/P1_bla.htm (5037 words)

	Balochistan
		Balochistan is located on the south eastern Iranian plateau, its geographical location between India and the Mesopotamian civilization had gave it a unique position as cross roads between earlier civilizations.
		Balochistan is treated as colony of Iran and not a part of Iran.
		Balochistan is their route to the sea and the world.
	members.chello.se /balochistaninfo/Presentedatswedishparliament21-11-2004.htm (5037 words)

	Balochistan United Front or jebhe motahed balochistan
		Balochistan United Front of Iran along with all other Iranian democratic and fair-minded political forces will fight the injustice and despotism of the Islamic Regime and strive for a democratic, decentralised and civilised Iran where real democracy and separation of religion and politics are the tenet of a enlightened society.
		Iranian government statistics paint a very grim and sad picture of Balochistan where infant and child mortality rates are worse than most African countries.
		The unique and historical London Conference, which lasted for two days ( 26th and 27th of April 2003) was a hallmark in the political history of Iranian Balochistan.
	www.baloch2000.org /front/statements/pr01.htm (5037 words)

	News Central Asia - Pakistan: Unveiling the Mystery of Balochistan Insurgency - Part One
		It was also not clear as to why Iran would be interested in stirring trouble in Balochistan when it was faced by an imminent war from the American side and it needed all the allies it could muster on its side and one of those allies could possibly be Pakistan.
		It was also difficult to reconcile Iranian involvement in Balochistan with the fact that Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline, that is a crucial project for Iran, was in the final stages of negotiation and there seemed no logical point in sending mixed signals by creating difficulties in Balochistan.
		Actually, the elements for the start of insurgency in Balochistan had been put in place already and the planners were waiting for a convenient catalyst to set things in motion.
	www.newscentralasia.com /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1188 (2825 words)

	Balochi Language...
		At present state education for the Baloch is in Persian in Iran, Urdu in Pakistani Balochistan and central Karachi, largely Sindhi in Sind, and Arabic in the Gulf.
		One of the possible causes for the failure of the Balochi mother tongue education programme in Pakistani Balochistan is a political one.
		Thus, while Urdu is the means of instruction in school in Balochistan, their ethnic unity is not questioned, but when there are separate Balochi and Brahui schools established the distinctiveness of the two language groups is more in focus.
	www.equetta.com /balochistan/language.htm (2825 words)

	Iran, Balochistan Under Martial Law
		of balochistan by terrorist iranian republic of iran...
		in city of Saravan Balochistan occupied by IRAN; the 10 years old boy was riding his bike to his house.
		Balochistan United Movement; Government of Balochistan; Gouvernment du Balochistan leader; Prince Meerdora Baloch has been working on peaceful resolutions under the influence of western values to create a resolve for the Baloch Nation; under the Peace and Freedom program; fighting war on terrorism: to view the Baloch constitution go to http://www.balochistan.net/gov/ or http://www.balochistan.net/radio/.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/1033895/posts?page=1 (2825 words)

	The Iranian: News & Views
		"We have already contacted the Iranian government on this subject," the minister said, expecting, "the things will be finalized within 8 to 12 months." He said it would be feasible to buy power from Iran for the border areas of Balochistan.
		He told Senate during a question hour here on Thursday that prime minister Nawaz Sharif had directed the authorities to explore this possibility so that the far-flung areas in Balochistan which could not be provided power by Wapda because of heavy finance requirements, should get electricity from Iran.
		ISLAMABAD, May 13: Minister for water and power Gohar Ayub Khan has said that Pakistan will buy electricity from Iran to provide power to Balochistan's areas bordering the Muslim brethren country.
	www.iranian.com /News/1999/May/power.html (2825 words)

	Sabawoon Daily News
		Such reports seem to be highly credible when measured against the backdrop of the military activity in Balochistan and Musharraf's statement on Iran, when he said,” We hope the US doesn't attack Iran.
		The current insurgency in Balochistan has been exploited by Musharraf to build new military installations and other facilities that the Americans can use in any confrontation with Iran.
		In the eighth hearing, the prosecution tells a judge that the Palestinian defendant apprehended in one of the city's train stations was carrying 4.7 grams of cocaine and 114 "pellets" on him.
	www.sabawoon.com /read.asp?cat=3&ViewNews=1 (18399 words)

	Pakistan Balochistan Insurgency 1973-1977
		Some foreign governments feared that an independent or autonomous Balochistan might allow the Soviet Union to develop and use the port at Gwadar, and no outside power was willing to assist the Baloch openly or to sponsor the cause of Baloch autonomy.
		A long-dormant crisis erupted in Balochistan in 1973 into an insurgency that lasted four years and became increasingly bitter.
		External assistance to Bhutto was generously given by the shah of Iran, who feared a spread of the insurrection among the Iranian Baloch.
	www.onwar.com /aced/data/papa/pakistan1973.htm (614 words)

	Demand for royalty on gas pipeline -DAWN - National; 25 February, 2005
		Taking to newsmen here on Thursday, he criticized the government and said the people of Balochistan considered that they should be the prime beneficiary of the gas pipeline or other development projects within the twin provinces of Iranian and Pakistani Balochistan.
		QUETTA, Feb 24: The leader of the opposition in the Balochistan Assembly, Mr Kachkol Ali, has taken serious exception to the sidelining of the provincial government and people in the ongoing talks between Pakistan and Iran over the laying of the gas pipeline through the province.
		The opposition leader said it was the irony of fate that a man was representing Balochistan, who had no knowledge about its people, their traditions, region's topography and available resources on both sides of frontiers.
	www.dawn.com /2005/02/25/nat14.htm (239 words)

	The Acorn » Foreign hands and Balochistan
		It is a dangerous thing to hope for US intervention in Balochistan, especially given its track record of support for terrorism in the past in the region, and the recent articles about the US using the same terrorist elements (i.e publicly known as “Pakistani cooperation”) to launch attacks against Iran.
		And then there is the angle of the pipeline: if anything, the outbreak of violence in Balochistan makes the proposal of the Iran to India overland pipeline even less feasible.
		When something goes wrong in Balochistan, the trend in Pakistan is to blame it on external forces.
	opinion.paifamily.com /index.php?p=1182 (1608 words)

	Balochistan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Balochistan (region) is the name of a large region covering southwest Pakistan and southeast Iran.
		Balochistan (Iran) is part of the Iranian province of Sistan va Baluchestan.
		Balochistan (Pakistan) is the name of a province of Pakistan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Balochistan (143 words)

	NSM People Group - Baloch, Southern
		Balochistan means the eastern and south-eastern part of Iran from Dasht e Lut in the west to the lower half of the Indus valley in Pakistan, including the south western part of Afghanistan.
		Attempts by the Iranian government (both under the Pahlavis and the current government) to integrate the Baluchis into the Iranian economy were intended to bring the region under the government's control and not necessarily improve the lot of the Baluchis.
		February 6 1994: The Iranian government reinforces security forces in Sistan-Baluchistan due to clashes between police and armed protestors who were denouncing Iran's demolition of a Sunni mosque in the city of Mashad in the province of Khorastan.
	www.strategicnetwork.org /index.php?loc=pe&pe=1468& (143 words)

	The brithish division of balochistan
		Consequently, control of Balochistan placed the borders of the Raj as contiguous to Iran and Afghanistan, thus enabling Britain to counter Russian moves in the two countries whose buffer status was regarded as essential to the defense of India.
		It is a historical analysis of events, which preceded the incorporation of western Balochistan into Iran, beginning with the rise of British colonial hegemony in the region and the ensuing division of Balochistan into western and eastern halves in 1871.
		Historically, the consolidation of British power in eastern Balochistan, which started with the occupation of the Kalat for a short time in 1839, coincides with the beginning of Iranian encroachments on western Balochistan during the reign of Nasir-u-Din Shah (1848-1896) of the Qajar dynasty (1779-1925).
	www.geocities.com /balochistory/bdb.html (143 words)

	Asia Times
		And Balochistan, a huge land rich in oil and gas resources and with a small population spread in Afghanistan Iran and Pakistan, could become a new focal point in regional and international disputes.
		While Iran and Pakistan have shown great interest in the project, India has been reluctant to move forward as long as political and military tensions with Pakistan over Kashmir persist, although a feasibility study is under way.
		Relevant authorities and officials of the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources subsequently held meetings with tribal elders through the Balochistan state government, and a package was hammered out.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/South_Asia/DG25Df01.html (1206 words)

	Pakistan Balochistan Insurgency 1973-1977
		Some foreign governments feared that an independent or autonomous Balochistan might allow the Soviet Union to develop and use the port at Gwadar, and no outside power was willing to assist the Baloch openly or to sponsor the cause of Baloch autonomy.
		External assistance to Bhutto was generously given by the shah of Iran, who feared a spread of the insurrection among the Iranian Baloch.
		A long-dormant crisis erupted in Balochistan in 1973 into an insurgency that lasted four years and became increasingly bitter.
	www.onwar.com /aced/data/papa/pakistan1973.htm (1206 words)

	economy.htm
		This article briefly discusses Balochistan Macroeconomics and Iranian government key economic policies in Balochistan based on the fact that Balochistan is bottom 10% earner in Iran.
		Hashemi Rafsanjani, and a total of 85% of the villages now have running water and electricity in Iran and in Balochistan 35% of the urban and rural area has running water, electricity, telephone and medical clinic.
		at all, in fact in some cases Iranian government economic policies in Balochistan inadvertently are obstructionist to Wealth Creation.
	www.biomedhealthcare.co.uk /forum/economy.htm (1206 words)

	Osama trail leads to Iran? -DAWN - International; 20 February, 2005
		That same scenario has been confirmed by Pakistani military sources, and its plausibility is further strengthened by indications of the construction of two new American military outposts in Balochistan: the first in the vicinity of the Khuzdar airbase, and another closer to the border with Iran, at Dalbandin.
		Probably entering Iran through Balochistan and possibly passing through the border city of Taftan, Osama may have been taken into custody by agents from Tehran.
		If that's the case, the Iranians may be considering using him as a bargaining chip to stave off possible military action from the United States.
	www.dawn.com /2005/02/20/int2.htm (1206 words)

	Partition of Balochistan
		At the same time the Iranian rulers, who had lost their northern provinces to the Russians, pursued a policy of expansion towards Baluchistan in order to compensate for the lost areas.
		However, in 1870, the British Government agreed to demarcate the border with the Khanate of Baluchistan, In 1871, the British Government accepted the Iranian proposal and appointed Maj. General Goldsmid as Chief Commissioner of the joint Perso-Baluch Boundry Commission.
		Afghanistan did not share the Iranian and the Pakistan policies but stated its own claim for Baluchistan, as part of its demand for Pushtunistan.
	members.fortunecity.com /balochistan/baloch/id12.html (1206 words)

	Pak forces recover Iranian hostage - Irna
		Keeping the victim in different places in Iran and Balochistan, the captors brought Ali to Afghanistan on Tuesday, when the FC personnel intercepted and arrested them and recovered the victim, the report said.
		He was recovered from Badini area, some 150 kilometers away from Quetta, the provincial capital of Pakistan's largest province Balochistan, which shares border with Iran and Afghanistan.
		Pakistan's Frontier Corps recovered Tuesday an Iranian national kidnapped in October by a gang of abductors for ransom, a local publcation wrote on Wednesday.
	www.irna.ir /irnewtest/en/news/view/line-16/0412290357123346.htm (1206 words)

	Balochistan (Pakistan) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Balochistan was the site of the earliest known farming settlements between South Asia and the Iranian plateau, the earliest of which was Mehrgarh dated at 6500 BCE.
		Balochistan subsequently was dominated by empires based in Iran and Afghanistan as well as the Mughal empire based in India.
		Balochistan remains one of the most conservative provinces in Pakistan and women are expected to wear the hijab unlike in many large cities where there are fewer restrictions.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Balochistan,_Pakistan (1702 words)

	balochistan or baluch, balouchistan
		Western Balochistan was conquered by Iran in the 19th century, and its boundary was fixed in 1872.
		Balochistan was established as a separate province in its present form in 1970.
		The northern part of Balochistan is mountainous and wild with hot temperatures in the summer and very cold and some times freezing weather in the winter.
	balochistan.1hwy.com (1226 words)

	BALOCHISTAN
		It is believed that thousands of years before Christ, areas now called Pakistan had commerce with the ancient civilization of Babylon and the trade route passed through Balochistan into Iran and then into the valleys of Tigris and Euphrates
		In the northwest of Balochistan, Pathans make up the majority of the population, and there is a sizeable minority of them elsewhere in the province.
		Balochistan Province covers a huge area in the southwest of Pakistan.
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Academy/3308/baloch.html (1129 words)

	Balochistan (Pakistan)
		The flag with light sky blue, white star and green over red is the international flag of Baluchistan, including the Baluch people of Baluchistan, Iran, Balochistan, Pakistan, Baluchistan, Afghanistan, and Baluchistan, Turkmenistan.
		The Balochistan flag shows stylised mountains of this barren province and the principal mode of transport - the camel.
		The flag was invented on 27 January 1982 by the Baloch United Movement which is now the government of Baluchistan.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/pk-bal.html (330 words)

	Balochistan
		Apart from Balochistans own resources the pipeline from Iran to India generate$3 billion a year and similar among or more from central Asian land lock country, which they can do little to their energy with out international market, accesses to that international market is through balochistan.
		In the 21st century Balochistan is in the eye of the storm, once more a greater game has begun, rules of the game are not clear yet, but the players are obvious, such as the Chinese and their growing need for energy.
		Balochistan once more is in the eye of the storm, this time around Balochistan is gate of energy, from central Asia and there is huge natural resources sleeping underground waiting to be pumped out to the energy market at a relatively cheap price.
	www.balochistaninfo.com /Juni06/balochistan06.htm (1046 words)

	Balochistan: Iran denies involvement -DAWN - National; 07 February, 2005
		PESHAWAR, Feb 6: The Consul-General of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Peshawar, Mr Mohammad Hasan Emani, on Sunday denied that Iran had any hand in the current volatile situation in Balochistan.
		Speaking at a news conference at the Peshawar Press Club here, he said that Iran was against interference in any country and added that his country was ready to extend all cooperation to Pakistan in its projects in Balochistan.
		The Iranian diplomat said that the 10-year war with Iraq did not cause any negative effects on Iran's economy, rather Iran achieved tremendous success in the fields of education, science and technology, agriculture and commerce during that period.
	www.dawn.com /2005/02/07/nat13.htm (1046 words)

	balochistan sistan and balouchestan of iran all about baloch and balochistan
		It was in fact observed in Zahedan, the provincial capital in the Iranian province of Sistan and Balochistan, that some families chose to speak Persian to their children rather than Balochi.
		The vast majority of the Baloch people, thus, had no education whatsoever, and still Balochistan is the part of Iran where the literacy rate is the lowest in the whole country.
		Education brought about new political ideas, both in Iranian and Pakistani Balochistan, and when the demands for freedom from Britain grew stronger and stronger in the Indian subcontinent, sever of the Baloch educated young men started to demand freedom for the Baloch as well.
	www.biomedhealthcare.co.uk /culture/language/carina.htm (1046 words)

	Iranian
		Iranian reformists Iranian reformists are a group of political factions in 1997.
		Iranian Iranian may refer to: Iranians Iran This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that points to other pages that...
		Iranian languages Iranian languages are a part of the Afghanistan, and split into the Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Dardic, and N...
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/iranian.html (1046 words)

	Articles - Balochistan
		Balochistan remains a backwater province, infested by Taliban-type mullahs and corrupt, opportunist politicians and Tribal Chiefs, all beholden to the military regime in Islamabad.
		Iranian diplomats showed their concern but did not offer any assistance, though they indicated their desire to provide, asylum to the rebel group in Iran.
		The ruler of the Khanate of Balochistan, Mir Ahmad Yar Khan,might have been coerced by Jinnah to sign the document of accession.
	www.sonicplayer.net /articles/Baluchistan (1046 words)

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