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Wss 1970s 80s postcard The Balochs (also: Balochis, Baluchi or Baluch) are a semi-nomadic people in southwestern Pakistan, southeastern Iran and in the southern Afghan provinces of Nimruz, Helmand and Kandahar. The Balochs probably originated in the nomadic tribes of the Middle East and the area around the Caspian Sea. Today, the ethnic designation "Balochen" refers to dozens of tribes. This is because for centuries populations from adjacent cultures have been transferred to it. About 70 percent of Baloch people live in the Pakistani province of Balochistan, which occupies about half of the territory of this state. Worldwide there are seven to ten million Balochs. A distinction can be made between a group that speaks Baluchi (an Iranian language), a group that are Baluchen but speak a different language, and a group whose ancestors took refuge in the Balochs. At the head of each tribe is a pir, a Sufi mystic, or a Muslim saint.
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