Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Lokacin da wani babban tashin hankali ya barke a lardin Balochistan na Pakistan a 1973, Iran, da tsoron tashin hankalin Baloch zai iya yaduwa zuwa lardin Sistan da Baluchistan, ya ba da tallafi mai yawa. Iran ta ba Pakistan kayan aikin soja (ciki har da jirage masu saukar ungulu na AH-1 Cobra talatin), bayanan sirri, da dala miliyan 200 a matsayin taimako. Gwamnatin Firayim Ministan Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto ta bayyana imanin cewa, kamar yadda a cikin
1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, Indiya ta sake kasancewa a bayan tashin hankali da tayar da kayar baya a yankin Balochistan. Koyaya, gwamnatin Indiya ta musanta duk wani hannu, kuma ta yi iƙirarin cewa tana tsoron ƙarin balkanisation na yankin. Bayan shekaru uku na gwagwarmayar tashin hankali ya fi rinjaye.