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Mir Ahmad Yar Khan Ahmedzai GCIE (1902–1979), commonly referred to as Ahmad Yar Khan, was the last Khan of Kalat, a princely state in a subsidiary alliance with British India and the Dominion of Pakistan, serving from 10 September 1933 to 14 October 1955.
The Khanate of Kalat was the first unified polity to emerge in the history of Balochistan. [2] It took birth from the confederacy of nomadic Brahui tribes native to Brahuistan in 1666 which under Mir Ahmad Khan I declared independence from the Mughal suzerainty [2] and slowly absorbed the Baloch principalities in the region.
Ahmad of Kalat in Iranian Balochistan requested in a letter in 1939 that scholars be sent to Kalat to draft laws and create unity in Balochistan. In response to this request, Qari Muhammad Tayyib and Shamsul Haq Afghani were dispatched to Kalat. After drafting some laws, Shamsul Haq Afghani remained in Balochistan at the insistence of the ruler ...
The area became the Kalat Division when the Union was dissolved. The first head of the Union was the Khan of Kalat, Ahmad of Kalat. The main governing body was the Council of Rulers which comprised the Khan-e-Azam Khan of Kalat, the Jam of Lasbela and the Nawabs of Kharan and Makran.
Nasir Khan began his reign in 1749 when Ahmad Shah Durrani, the ruler of the Durrani Empire, replaced Haji Khan, who was the previous ruler of Kalat. Throughout his reign, Nasir Khan undertook 25 military campaigns. He had accompanied Ahmad Shah in his campaign in Khorasan as well as the Third battle of Panipat.
Kalat finally acceded to Pakistan on 27 March 1948 after the 'strange help' of All India Radio and a period of negotiations and bureaucratic tactics used by Pakistan. [3] The signing of the Instrument of Accession by Ahmad Yar Khan, led his brother, Prince Abdul Karim, to revolt against his brother's decision [5] in July 1948. [6]
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In 1948, Prince Agha Abdul Karim and Prince Muhammad Rahim of Kalat launched a rebellion in response to accession of Kalat and with the aim of establishing Kalat as an independent state from Pakistan. With the arrest of the princes and loss of a lot of manpower, the rebellion ultimately came to an end in 1950 with Pakistan recapturing all ...