Popular Front for Armed Resistance, or PFAR, was a terrorist outfit formed during the 1960s. The group is responsible for series of bomb blasts in Pakistan. PFAR aim was independence of Baloch region from Pakistan. There has been no accurate independent estimate of the size or strength of PFAR. Most of outfit's activists were trained in

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. For the outfit, Afghanistan was good place to obtain weaponry and others goods. In 1974, PFAR carried out series of bomb attacks in various cities of Pakistan. The outfit also claimed responsibility for bomb explosions at a political rally in

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. The political rally was to be attended by

Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Zulfikar (or Zulfiqar) Ali Bhutto ( ur, , sd, ذوالفقار علي ڀٽو; 5 January 1928 – 4 April 1979), also known as Quaid-e-Awam ("the People's Leader"), was a Pakistani barrister, politician and statesman who served as the fourth ...

. In the same year, Pakistani security forces launched series of counter-terrorism operation against the outfit.

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also offered external assistance to these counter-terrorism operations. Iran supplied Pakistan with Gun-ship helicopters and pilots to assist Pakistan. As a result of the counter-terrorism operations, the outfit was considerably weakened and it lost its ability to carry out guerilla attacks against Pakistan. Currently it is not known if the outfit is still active or not.

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{{baloch nationalism Baloch nationalist militant groups Rebel groups in Pakistan Paramilitary organisations based in Pakistan Balochistan National liberation movements Separatism in Pakistan

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