His dead body was discovered on 9 April 2009, five days after being detained by gunmen who were believed to be Pakistani Law enforcement officers.

[4][5] Ghulam Mohammed Baloch was born on 1 January 1959,[6] in Soro, Mand, the hometown of classical Balochi poet Mullah Fazul, in district Kech of Balochistan.

He received his early education from Mand High School in his hometown and later graduated from SM College, Karachi, in 1984.

[6] Although he advocated for an independent Balochistan throughout his political career, he was regarded as the face of the renewed movement for a separate Baloch homeland which started after 2002.

Baloch Liberation Army, a nationalist group, alleged that Pakistani security forces are behind the murder of the three politicians.