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MIR MOHAMMAD ALI TALPUR is a political organiser with the Baloch struggle; public intellectual and writer on Balochistan. He joined the Baloch national struggle in 1971, was with the movement through the 1973 to 1977 insurgency, and escaped with them to Afghanistan as a refugee until 1991. He spent three years in the Marri Hills, three years underground in Sindh, and 13 years (1978-1991) in Afghanistan, where he was responsible for camps delivering educational and health services to 8000 Baloch refugees in Zabul and Helmand (near Lashkargah). In 2014, he joined a 3000-km long march to demand the return of disappeared Baloch. He is the author of dozens of articles on the Baloch movement and tweets @mmatalpur.