Sher Muhammad Bijarani (Marri) was a Baloch nationalist tribal chief and militant. He fully favoured a struggle against Pakistan. He had very close link with Kabul, Tehran and Baghdad. He was the one who made a deal with Iraqi government in 1973, about an arms to be shared with Iranian Baloch groups and his own group.

Sher Muhammad Marri also known as Babu Shero, Shero Marri, General Sherof and Baluchi Tiger.

Guerilla Warfare

He was the first Baloch who gave the Baloch armed struggle a new shape by following the tactics of modern guerilla warfare, against the occupiers of Balochistan. In early 1960s his Parari (fighters) formations attacked occupiers in Marri area and in Jahlawan under Mir Ali Muhammad Mengal, the second in command of General Shero. Once, when Shero came to his village, after years of fighting, his villagers came to greet him including his son, his son was grown up Shero not recognized him. Then the son said that I am your son, Shero replied, that’s good that your are not a son of any other person. Babu Shero was a military commander who loved alcohol, tobacco and an expert on Marxist literature. But, during last days of his life, Shero and his former comrades broke apart, that time, 1990’s, there was a big confusion between Baloch partisans.

Death

Babu Shero died on 11 May 1993 in a Mumbai (then Bombay) hospital, in India, due to illness.

Popular Quotes

“” …….I have seen a little Baloch girl who was sold in punjab by pakistani soldiers for just 5 rupees…..we are slaves….”” Scripts from General Shero’s interview by Channel 4, London, 1980’s.