Ilyas Nizar was born on July 12, 1984, in house of Nizar Mohammad Baloch and Naz Bibi in Kikken , Turbat area of Kech, Balochistan. Completed his early schooling from his local village and graduated from Atta Shad Degree College Turbat in 2007. His whole family shifted in Daki Bazar, Absar, Turbat. He then traveled to Shaal (Quetta) for higher education where he got his Masters’ admission (MCS) from University of Balochistan. Understanding the forced deprivation of Baloch society by Pakistani state made him a sensitive teacher for a goal to which he remained committed to all his life. Teaching in various institutions in Turbat and then in Quetta till his final year, he remained dedicated to BSO Azad’s junior teaching policy where he taught his junior fellow students in university. The first Balochi language children’s monthly Magazine ‘Darwant’ which remained in circulation for two years till his involuntary disappearance by Pakistani Forces, was the vision and efforts of this young Baloch journalist.
Mystic soul, secular mind made him visit Church, Temple and Mosque and do medication late nights in search of his creator. In Quetta as a BSO Azad activist, he frequently visited Voice for Baloch Missing Persons’ (VBMP) camp in front of Shaal Press Club. On 21st Dec 2010, while route to Turbat from Quetta, he was forced to disembark from a bus at Badok check post on Coastal Highway by Pakistani state intelligence agencies and became one among thousands of Baloch activists to have been forcibly disappeared by Pakistan. After 2 weeks on 5 January, 2011 Ilyas Nizar Baloch’s tortured body with four bullet-wounds was found with another fellow of BSO Azad and activist Kambar Chakar in Pidrak area Kech, Balochistan. His body was marked with extreme signs of torture.
He was among the committed members of the Organization and continued his struggle in the difficult times. He inspired many youths to join the caravan of BSO Azad. His sacrifices for the independence of the Baloch homeland at his youngest age will be remembered in the golden words in the chapters of Baloch history. His sacrifices will bring freedom to Baloch Homeland.
‘’I am proud of my son, his Martyrdom honors me. Like Ilyas and Kambar, I have many other thousands of son who are in the struggle to liberate their motherland and I pray for their safety and victory.”
On his Martyrdom his Mother Naz Bibi Narrated:
