The Balochistan Liberation United Front (BLUF) is a

Baloch nationalist __NOTOC__ Baloch nationalism ( Baloch: راج دۏستی بلۏچی) asserts that the Baloch people, an ethnic group native to Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan are a distinct nation, and that their ethnicity overrides religious loyalty. The origins o ...

Indian Supported militant organization in

Pakistan Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 24 ...

. It first became known for claiming the kidnapping of American

UNHCR The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is a United Nations agency mandated to aid and protect refugees, forcibly displaced communities, and stateless people, and to assist in their voluntary repatriation, local integrati ...

worker

John Solecki John Solecki was the head of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) office in the Pakistani city of Quetta. Solecki had been working in Balochistan to help the Afghan refugees, the communities hosting them and the local people affec ...

from

Quetta Quetta (; ur, ; ; ps, کوټه‎) is the tenth List of cities in Pakistan by population, most populous city in Pakistan with a population of over 1.1 million. It is situated in Geography of Pakistan, south-west of the country close to the ...

on February 2, 2009. The BLUF demanded the release of thousands of

prisoners it claimed were being held by the

Pakistani government The Government of Pakistan ( ur, , translit=hakúmat-e pákistán) abbreviated as GoP, is a federal government established by the Constitution of Pakistan as a constituted governing authority of the four provinces, two autonomous territories, ...

Baloch insurgency The Insurgency in Balochistan is an insurgency or revolt by Baloch nationalists against the governments of Pakistan and Iran in the Balochistan region, which covers the Balochistan Province in southwestern Pakistan, Sistan and Baluchestan Prov ...

. The group eventually released Solecki on April 4, 2009, on humanitarian grounds without any of its demands being met. BLUF also claimed the responsibility for a targeted attack on October 25, 2009 that killed

Shafiq Ahmed Khan Shafiq Ahmed Khan ( ur, شفیق احمد خان) (died; 25 October 2009) was a Pakistani politician who served as provisional minister of education of Balochistan Balochistan ( ; bal, بلۏچستان; also romanised as Baluchistan and Baluches ...

, the education minister of the

Balochistan province Balochistan (; bal, بلۏچستان; ) is one of the four provinces of Pakistan. Located in the southwestern region of the country, Balochistan is the largest province of Pakistan by land area but is the least populated one. It shares land ...

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Organisations designated as terrorist by Pakistan Baloch nationalist militant groups Rebel groups in Pakistan Balochistan Paramilitary organisations based in Pakistan Separatism in Pakistan Terrorism in Pakistan {{Pakistan-org-stub