The stated objectives of the organization included "promoting Balochi language and literature and debating political conditions.

They broke off into a separate splinter group Baloch Students Organization – Awami, and allied themselves to Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's Pakistan Peoples Party.

[5] During the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971, Bhutto formed a tripartite alliance with the NAP and Jamiat-e-Ulema-e-Islam (JUI).

The NAP and BSO, being supporters of provincial autonomy, called for the release of Mujibur Rahman and the restoration of democracy, which earned the ire of the military government in Islamabad.

After Bhutto came to power at the end of the war, he let the NAP-JUI coalition form a provincial government in Balochistan in April 1972.

Among the long list of reasons cited for the dismissal was the allegation that the government was allowing the `lawless behaviour' of the BSO.

After four years of bloodshed, the insurgency came to end when Zia ul Haq came to power and declared a general amnesty.

[4] The BSO remained the leading student organisation in Balochistan's campuses, protesting against the Zia ul Haq's dictatorship.

It also denounced the Islamist Afghan resistance against the Soviet troops backed by the United States and Saudi Arabia.

[4][6] In 1984, the BSO–Awami merged back into the main BSO, following the request of Hameed Baloch, who was given death sentence for an attempted assassination of an Omani colonel.

However, the organization does support Khair Bakhsh Marri, the Baloch Liberation Army and the armed struggle of Brahamdagh Bugti.

[17][18] In 2003, BSO–Star, which was similarly made up of members seeking independence from political parties in BSO–Mengal, merged with BSO–Azad, and the combined organization was called BSO–Muttahida (or "BSO–United").

In March 2005, Imdad Baloch, and other activists were abducted from a flat in Karachi by security forces and tortured.

Malik Siraj Akbar, a Harvard-based political analyst, calls it a "very unique organization that does not have any parallels in Pakistan."

[17] The former leader Zahid Baloch was abducted in Quetta in March 2014 in front of eyewitnesses by men who arrived in SUVs used by the Pakistan Army.

The organization has also approached the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights asking him to intervene with the Pakistan government and secure the release of Zahid Baloch.

She said that she escaped a Pakistani military attack on the town of Tump and stayed underground for nearly a year before arriving in Toronto.

[29] Karima attended the Amnesty International's 'Rights for Rights' event to raise awareness of the world community on the abductions and disappearances in Balochistan.

It represents a mainstream viewpoint and concentrates on ideological and educational aspects of Baloch national movement.

NP wants more provincial rights and greater autonomy for Baluchistan province within the parliamentary framework of Pakistan.

[6] The group has gathered enough support from the student body since its split from the united BSO and demands "total autonomy" for Balochistan.

They charged him with espionage and released a pre-recorded statement of Jadhav confessing to being a spy working for the Indian intelligence agency RAW and admitting that he had been in touch with its contacts in Pakistan, especially those in the BSO.

He also stated that he was to support the insurgency by coordinating subversion, violent activities against the general population, targeting attacks against strategic assets in the region, and against Chinese workers.

She stated that theirs was a home-grown movement for the independence of Balochistan and that Pakistan wished to paint it as a proxy war of foreign powers.