Sher Mohammad Marri, also known as Babu Shero, was the chief of the Marri Baloch tribe in Pakistan and a key figure in the Parrari movement, which eventually led to the formation of the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA), a militant nationalist group. He was a Marxist and had close ties to leftist governments in Kabul and Moscow.
Sher Mohammad Marri was born in 1935 in Kohlu, Balochistan, which was then part of British India. He was a pioneer in using modern guerrilla warfare tactics against the Pakistani Armed Forces. In the early 1960s, his Parrari fighters launched attacks against the Pakistani military in the Marri area and Jahlawan under the leadership of Mir Ali Muhammad Mengal. The campaign ended in 1967 when a general amnesty was declared.
In 1973, Marri was arrested for his involvement in struggles against the government of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. After his release in the late 1970s, he went into exile in the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, which was a Marxist country at the time. Following the fall of the Communist Afghan government in 1992, Marri briefly returned to Pakistan but then went to India.
Towards the end of his life, Sher Mohammad Marri witnessed the fragmentation and disarray within the Baloch nationalist movement. He had a bitter dispute with Khair Bakhsh Marri, which further divided the Baloch nationalists.
Sher Mohammad Marri passed away on May 11, 1993, in a hospital in New Delhi, India. His legacy as a leader in the Baloch nationalist movement and his role in the armed resistance against the Pakistani government remain significant in the history of Balochistan.
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