Balochistan Liberation Charter
Prologue
The ancestral homeland of the Baloch people is called Balochistan, yet today the Baloch are not the masters of their own country. A series of calamitous events - not least the imperialist wars of conquest in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries - have distorted Balochistan’s natural development and have prevented the Baloch people from determining their own future.
A defining point in the history of Balochistan, however, was in 1666 when different Baloch confederacies were unified and brought under a single Baloch national state. Following from this moment of national unity, the Baloch nation established reciprocal diplomatic relations with their neighbours and beyond.
The historical and geopolitical borders of Balochistan were drawn up in the eighteenth century by the Baloch political leader and ruler Mir Naseer Khan Baloch also known as Noori Naseer Khan (1749-1794).
The British Empire invaded the sovereign state of Balochistan on 13 November 1839. As the result of the British colonial policy of ‘divide and rule’ Balochistan was subsequently divided into three parts. By drawing an arbitrary line in 1871 called the Goldsmid Line, western part of Balochistan was given to the Qajar Dynasty. A second line, the Durand Line, was drawn in the year 1893. With this line, the northern part of Balochistan was given to Afghanistan. These artificial borders were drawn against the consent, interest and well-being of the Baloch nation.
The occupation of Western Balochistan by the Qajar Dynasty was relatively short-lived. The Dynasty lost its dominance over Balochistan during the first decade of the twentieth century. The British in 1916 openly recognised and acknowledged Baloch political leaders as the effective rulers of Western Balochistan. In 1928 the Persian army headed by Reza Khan once again invaded and took control of western Balochistan.
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