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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Eastern Baloch of Pakistan

The Eastern Baloch of Pakistan, numbering approximately 2,995,000 people, are Unengaged and Unreached. They are an ethnolinguistic community of Pakistan, northeast Balochistan province: northwest Sind, southwest Punjab. They mostly adhere to Sunni Islam and Eastern Balochi is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Persian-Median Peoples
Country: Pakistan
People Cluster: Baloch
Primary Language(s): Eastern Balochi (bgp)
Primary Religion(s): Sunni Islam
Population: 2,995,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Unengaged and Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
People Group ID: PG006346
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Sunni Islam
Religious Affiliation: Islam

99%
%
Sunni Islam Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Eastern Balochi
Language Family: Indo-European

90%
%
Balochi, Eastern Speakers

Media Resources in Eastern Balochi:

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Bible Resources in Eastern Balochi:

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Unengaged and Unreached

Strategic Priority Index (SPI): Unengaged and Unreached (SPI: 0), which means there are less than 2% evangelical Christian populations among which there are no known efforts focused on establishing self-sustaining churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice.
Lostness Priority Index (LPI): Frontier Unreached People Group, (LPI: 0), < 0.1% Evangelical.
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity (GSEC: 1), this people group is less than 2% evangelical, some evangelical resources are available, but there has been no active church planting among them within the past two years

Next steps for the Eastern Baloch:
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Pray specifically for the Eastern Baloch of Pakistan

And Mary said, "My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior."
readLuke 1:46-47

Pray that those who are lost will recognize their need for a Savior and joyfully embrace the mercy that God offers.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."
readJohn 14:6

Pray that those who are searching for a way to God and desiring truth will encounter the good news of eternal life and accept it.

Jesus said, ‘Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands, for my sake and for the gospel, who will not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the age to come eternal life.
readMark 10:29-30

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will know that when they make sacrifices to follow Jesus, He is there with them and will bless them abundantly in this life and in the life to come.

Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst. But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe."
readJohn 6:35-36

Praise God for the things such as bread that He has provided as natural conversation bridges to the gospel. Pray that believers will use any bridges He provides to share the gospel with those who do not yet know the good news.

Baloch Eastern Across Countries (ROP3 - 102830) reported in the following countries:

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2 people groups

PhotoPeople Group ID ▼NameCountryPopulationStrategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
Eastern BalochPG041660Eastern BalochIndia97,500Unengaged and UnreachedUrduSunni Islam
Eastern BalochPG006346Eastern BalochPakistan2,995,000Unengaged and UnreachedEastern BalochiSunni Islam

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