Abdul Aziz Kurd (1904–1979) was a co-founder of the

Anjuman-e-Ittehad-e-Balochan-wa-Balochistan Anjuman-e-Ittehad-e-Balochan-wa-Balochistan (English: Society for the Unity of Balochis and Balochistan) was a political party formed in 1931 in Mastung, Pakistan by Abdul Aziz Kurd and Yousaf Aziz Magsi. The Kalat State National Party emerged fro ...

. Among the pioneering Baloch nationalists, he wished to establish an independent Balochistan. Kurd was born to a civil servant to the Khanate of Kalat and was among the handful of Balochs to receive an education. Baloch nationalists allege that he established an underground movement — Young Baloch — in the 1920s, for the initiation of representative democracy in the Khanate, borrowing from the

Young Turk Revolution The Young Turk Revolution (July 1908) was a constitutionalist revolution in the Ottoman Empire. The Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), an organization of the Young Turks movement, forced Sultan Abdul Hamid II to restore the Ottoman Consti ...

. Martin Axmann finds such claims to lack relevant archival evidence and suspicious in light of Kurd's young age but nonetheless plausible in an atmosphere rife with anti-imperialism. Sometime around 1930, Kurd co-founded the

(AIBB) with

Yousaf Aziz Magsi Nawab Mir Yousaf Aziz Magsi was a co-founder of the Anjuman-e-Ittehad-e-Balochan-wa-Balochistan alongside Abdul Aziz Kurd. In 2011, a commemorative seminar was held at the National Language Authority in Islamabad.Kalat State National Party The Kalat State National Party (KSNP) was a Baloch nationalist political party in Balochistan in the princely state of Kalat from 1937 to 1948. They sought independence from British and full restoration of the Khanate of Kalat. The party was fo ...

(KSNP), preferring to advocate for outright independence than bargain with the British for incremental reforms. The Khanate, promising to introduce administrative reforms, was accepted as an ally and Kurd was even appointed to the rank of a cabinet minister in Ahmad Yar Khan's court. In his new role, Kurd aided Khan to repress rebellions by the tributary states of Jam and Las Bela. However, that Khan declined to facilitate the more radical of reforms centered on democratic principles, Kurd resigned in February 1939. KSNP was banned a few months later, for conspiring against the Khanate and Kurd had to shift bases to Quetta. Across the 1940s, Kurd remained opposed not only to Jinnah's demand of a united homeland for South Asian Muslims but also merger with India, unlike most of KSNP leaders.

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Pakistani politicians People from Balochistan, Pakistan Baloch people Baloch nationalists Kurdish people 1904 births 1979 deaths {{Pakistan-politician-stub