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The Khanate of Kalat, also known as the Brahui Confederacy, [2] was a Brahui Khanate that originated in the modern-day Kalat region of Pakistan.Formed in 1666 due to the threat of Mughal expansion in the region, [3] [4] it controlled the wider Balochistan at its greatest extent in the mid-18th century, [2] extending from Kerman in the west to Sindh in the east and from Helmand River in the ...
The town of Kalat is the headquarter of Kalat District and is known locally as Kalat-e-Brahui and Kalat-e-Sewa. [4] Qalat, formerly Qilat, is located roughly in the center of the Balochistan province, It was the capital of the Kalat Khanate. The Khan of Kalat is presently a ceremonial title held by Mir Suleman Dawood Jan, and the Pakistan ...
Mir Muhammad Nasir Khan I Ahmadzai (Balochi: میر محمد نصیر خان اول احمد زئی) was the Khan of Kalat between 1749 and 1794. Considered greatest of the Khans of Kalat, his reign was marked by maximum expansion of the state as well as political consolidation of the Khanate of Kalat.
Map of the Baluchistan Agency. Jhalawan ( Brahui : جھالاوان) was an administrative division of the Khanate of Kalat , a princely state of Brahui that acceded to Pakistan in 1947. It was established in the 17th century and its boundary was fixed with Sindh in 1853.
The Khanate came to an end on 14 October 1955, when it was incorporated into West Pakistan. [37] On 20 June 1958, Mir Sir Ahmad Yar Khan Ahmedzai, the Khan of Kalat, declared Baluchistan revolt. [38] On 6 October 1958, the Balochistan police captured the Kalat Palace and arrested the Khan for sedition.
Map of the Baluchistan Agency. Kacchi was a division of the former princely state of Kalat in Baluchistan , Pakistan, with an area 5,310 square miles (13,800 km 2 ). [ 1 ] It was located in the Kacchi Plain .
Contemporary portrait of Amir Miro Mirwani, Khan of Kalat. created in c. 1700, Balochistan history book [78] The Khanate of Kalat founded in the 16th century by Mir Altaz Sani Khan Qambrani and played an important part of Baloch history. [79] The major figure in its establishment was Mir Ahmad Khan, who, established his authority over Kalat. [80]
During this period, Kalat was under the suzerainty of the Durrani Empire. In 1818, it achieved a kind of independence, [2] but it continued to be subject to some orders from the rulers of the Emirate of Afghanistan until at least 1838. [3] The Khans of Kalat believed themselves to be descended from Hamza, an uncle of the Prophet Muhammad.