Baluchistan National Flag

The National Flag of Baluchistan [The land of Baluch Nation] The Baluch Government in Exile 30

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The National Flag The National Flag of Balochistan / Baluchistan, also known as the BERAK, features two equal horizontal bands of Green (top) and Red (bottom) with a sky blue isosceles triangle bearing a white five-pointed star in the centre, which adopted by the Baluch Government as the international flag of Baluchistan, including the Baluch Nation of the greater Baluchistan (Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Turkmenistan). The national flag was invented on 27 January 1982 by the Baloch United (Baloch Etihad) which is now the Government of Baluchistan in Exile.

"The aim of this document is to introduce in brief the history of the current National Flag of the greater Baluchistan (the land of Baluch nation) to help those who use the Baluchistan national flag to reproduce it correctly. The document contains the basic rules for the construction of the national flag as well as the standard colors to be used and known." The Baluch Government in Exile

A national flag is a flag that symbolises a country. The flag is flown by the government.

Birth of the National Flag (historical background) The National Flag was first introduced by the leaders of the Western Baluchistan in 1960, in Egypt, Romania and later in Iraq for the National Front for the Liberation of Western Baluchistan to represent the Baluch Nation in their struggle for independence and free Baluchistan from the illegal domination, oppression and occupation of the Persian tyrant kings. It was subsequently presented to the members of the international delegation at the peace conferences that devised a plan for Baluch Nation independence. Under the same flag the Baluch leaders announced the formation of the first "Baluchi Government in Exile" in 1961 in Egypt and fought a drawn-out war until 1972, in order to revive the Baluch Nation national independence, lost since 1415. In 1961 and the creation of the Government of Baluchistan, the old "Chakari flag" which was red with the picture of a black panther, the new one was adopted by its parliament as the official Flag of the government of Baluchistan in the country and abroad. Following these historic background, the National Flag is widely adopted in Greater Baluchistan anonymously and has been set aloft by various Baluchi political parties and entities in all sectors of the Baluchistan and abroad. The Flag of grater Baluchistan has thus been consecrated by the blood of all Baluch martyrs patriots of this century, from tens of thousands who fell in defending the independence movement under the new government and leadership. The flag was aloft when Nasir was immolated in 1960; it was aloft when wounded Baluch on stretchers were placed before the firing squads under cruel Iranian Shah rules; it was aloft when Baluch civilians were gassed in their hundreds in villages in Aahurran and Zardkouh in Baluchistan; it was aloft when hundreds of Baluch innocent were driven from their villages and towns that have been set alight since 1958-59; and, it remains aloft everywhere today more than 5 decades after the loss of Baluchistan independence–when Baluch are redoubling their perennial struggle to regain their dignity and equality with other nations by reviving their right to choose the course of their own future.

Symbolism in the national flag of Baluchistan The flag of the Baluchistan is one of the nation's most widely recognized symbols. The Government of Baluchistan in Exile presented the current flag consists of a tricolor field, with a five dimension star in the blue field. official version of the meaning of both Baluch nation entire Baluchistan flag that the Red (bottom) is the sign of moral heroism for those who suffered martyrdom. Green (top) is the sign of the blossoming spring of our freedom. Blue is the sign of our marine and celestial frontiers. The white star is the sign of the moral heroism, manliness and generosity. Dr Mirdora Rind Baluch, 16 September 2001

Official specifications According to Baluch Government specifications, basic design of the current flag is the specification of the national flag. The specification gives the following values: * The flag's length is twice its width, which translates into an aspect ratio of 1:2. And a Blue equilateral triangle at the hoist with a white 5-pointed star. The sides of the Blue triangle are equal to the width of the flag. * The Baluch National flag has two horizontal bands. The upper stripe is green, the hoist in sky blue with a white five dimension star and the bottom band is red. * The flag's colors are specified by Baluch Governmnet. Green (top), Red (bottom) and, Sky Blue with a wihte Star.

Design of Baluchistan's flag Construction The flag is horizontally divided into two fundamental colors, green and scarlet red, with a blue equilateral triangle based at the hoist side. At the center of the triangle is a five-pointed white Star .

National five dimession white Star The primary Baluch characteristic of the flag is the white five dimension star at the beginning. The 5 dimension of the star is the Baluchi Standard Language, secularism, cultural, the heroic history among the Baluch, stretching into antiquity. The five angle star disk has many decades' olds; every angle is equal in size and shape. The number angles hold a primary importance in the native Baluch heroic secularism and cultural tradition of the Baluch Nation.

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Design of Baluchistan's flag The flag's colors are specified by the Governmnet of Baluchistan in Exile in terms of their The Natural Color System (NCS) is a proprietary perceptual color model published by the Scandinavian Color Institute (Skandinaviska Färginstitutet AB) of Stockholm, Sweden. The official colors and their approximations in other color spaces are listed below:

Scheme RGB CMYK HSV Hex Pantone NCS

Green

Red

Blue Sky(deep blue sky)

96, 221, 73

239, 43, 45

0, 191, 255

57, 0, 67, 13

0, 82, 81, 6

100, 25, 0, 0

111°, 67%, 87%

359°, 82%, 94%

195°, 100%, 100%

#60DD49 802c 1358-G27Y

#EF2B2D

#00BFFF

1788c

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0677-R1B

B43G

White 255, 255, 255 0, 0, 0, 0 0°, 0%, 100% #FFFFFF 1c W

General Note: The color schemes are not all congruent. This is due to different specifications for different types of media (for example, screen and print)

Meaning of the 4 colors: sign is our moral heroism for those who suffer martyrdom. sign is the blossomed spring of our freedom.

sign is the might of our marine and celestial frontiers. sign is our moral heroism, manliness and generosity.

Earlier versions of this flag are no longer used.* Copyright © Government of Baluchistan in Exile National Information Network Online Inc.