Hameed Baloch ( ur, ) was a Baloch student and member of the

Baloch Students Organization The Baloch Students Organization (BSO; ur, ) is a student organisation that campaigns for the students of Pakistan's Balochistan Province. It was founded as a student movement on 26 November 1967 in Karachi and remains the largest ethnic Baloc ...

(BSO). He was arrested on 9 December 1979, while he was a student at Government Degree College

Turbat Turbat is the second-largest city in Balochistan after Quetta and 38th largest city of Pakistan. It is the largest city in the southern part of the province. Education University: University of TurbatBalochistan University of Engineering & ...

, on charges of firing at a military officer from the Gulf state of

Oman Oman ( ; ar, عُمَان ' ), officially the Sultanate of Oman ( ar, سلْطنةُ عُمان ), is an Arabian country located in southwestern Asia. It is situated on the southeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula, and spans the mouth of ...

. The

Omani Oman ( ; ar, عُمَان ' ), officially the Sultanate of Oman ( ar, سلْطنةُ عُمان ), is an Arabian country located in southwestern Asia. It is situated on the southeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula, and spans the mouth of t ...

military officer was recruiting Pakistani Baloch soldiers from Balochistan (Pakistan), Balochistan province to suppress the Dhofar Rebellion. Oman at the time was facing a Marxist–Leninist insurgency in its Dhofar province. Ever since Oman first took control of the enclave of Gwadar in Balochistan in the 18th century it had hired foot soldiers from the region to serve in the Sultan of Oman's Armed Forces. Oman ceded sovereignty over Gwadar to Pakistan in 1958. The BSO, being a leftist organization, was opposed to the recruitment, and to the fight against the Dhofar rebels, whose ideology had similarities with its own. They saw it as aiming to 'pervert' the youth in Baloch society against Marxist–Leninist teachings by offering huge salaries for their services in a mercenary army. Hameed was tried by a special military court and condemned to death. The death sentence was carried out on 11 June 1981 in Mach prison.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Baloch, Hameed 1958 births 1981 deaths Baloch nationalists Balochistan Baloch Students Organization People executed by Pakistan by hanging History of Oman Executed revolutionaries Executed activists Baloch people Executed Pakistani people 20th-century executions by Pakistan

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