Baluchistan (Chief Commissioners Province)
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Capital	Quetta
Area	140,010 km²
Official language(s)	Urdu, Baluchi
Established	15th August 1947
Abolished	14th October 1955
Historic regions of Pakistan
Original Provinces Baluchistan East Bengal Federal Capital Territory North West Frontier Province Sind West Punjab One-Unit Provinces Quetta (کویتہ) is the capital of the province Balochistan in Pakistan. ... Urdu () is an Indo-European language of the Indo-Aryan family which developed under Persian, Turkish, and Arabic influence in the South Asia during the time of the Delhi Sultanate and Mughal Empire (1200-1800). ... Balochi, a north-western Iranian language, is the principal language of Balochistan,in Pakistan. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with East Pakistan. ... The Punjab/ پنجاب province of Pakistan is part of the larger Punjab region. ... East Pakistan West Pakistan It has been suggested that East Bengal (province) be merged into this article or section. ... Independent (as part of Pakistan) from British Empire - August 14, 1947 Separated from East Pakistan as Pakistan - March 26, 1971 Capital Karachi Language Urdu, English West Pakistan consisted of the western part of Pakistan from 1947 until 1971, when East Pakistan became Bangladesh and West Pakistan became the present-day...	Former States Amb State Bahawalpur State Baluchistan States Union Kalat State Chitral State Dir State Hunza State Khairpur State Kharan State Las Bela State Makran State Nagar State Phulra State Swat State
Other regions Gilgit Agency Trans-Karakoram Tract
Government of Balochistan

This article is about the former Chief Commissioners Province of Baluchistan. For other uses, see Balochistan (disambiguation).

The Chief Commissioners Province of Baluchistan was a former province of Pakistan located in the northern parts of modern Balochistan province. It was originally formed over the period 1876-1891 by three treaties between Robert Sandeman and the Khan of Kalat. Sandeman became the Political Agent for the British-administered areas which were strategically located between British India and Afghanistan. A military base was established at Quetta which played a major part in the Second and Third Afghan Wars. Amb was a small princely state in what is today the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan. ... The State of Bahawalpur was a princely state of the Punjab in Pakistan, stretching along the southern bank of the Sutlej and Indus Rivers, with its capital city at Bahawalpur. ... Chitral, or Chitrāl, is the name of a town (35° 53 N; 71° 48 E), valley, river, district, and former princely state in the Malakand Division of the Northwest Frontier Province of Pakistan. ... This page is about the town of Hunza in northern Kashmir. ... Khairpur (khīr´poor) is a city in the Sindh province in southeast Pakistan. ... Makran is the southern region of Balochistan, in Iran and Pakistan along the coast of the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman. ... The Gilgit Agency was an occupied province of the Maharaja of Kashmir before November 1, 1947. ... Trans-Karakoram Tract is occupied by China now, having been part of Pakistan-occupied Jammu & Kashmir until 1963, when Pakistan had handed over it to China according to the border agreement. ... The province of Balochistan (or Baluchistan) in Pakistan contains most of historical Balochistan and is named after the Baloch. ... Robert Groves Sandeman (1835-1892), Indian officer and administrator, was the son of General Robert Turnbull Sandeman, and was born on the 25th of February 1835. ... The city of Kalat is located roughly in the center of Balochistan, Pakistan, south and slightly west of the provincial capital Quetta. ... Quetta (کویتہ) is the capital of the province Balochistan in Pakistan. ... ... The Rise of Dost Mohammad It was not until 1826 that the energetic Dost Mohammad was able to exert sufficient control over his brothers to take over the throne in Kabul, where he proclaimed himself amir. ...

The province became part of Pakistan in 1947 and continued to be administered by a Chief Commissioner. It was dissolved in 1955 when most parts of the western wing of Pakistan became the new province of West Pakistan. When that province was dissolved in 1970, the former Chief Commissioners province was combined with the former Baluchistan States Union to form a new province with both a Governor and a Chief Minister. Independent (as part of Pakistan) from British Empire - August 14, 1947 Separated from East Pakistan as Pakistan - March 26, 1971 Capital Karachi Language Urdu, English West Pakistan consisted of the western part of Pakistan from 1947 until 1971, when East Pakistan became Bangladesh and West Pakistan became the present-day... The province of Balochistan (or Baluchistan) in Pakistan contains most of historical Balochistan and is named after the Baloch. ... A governor is also a device that regulates the speed of a machine. ... A Chief Minister is the elected Head of Government of a state of India, a territory of Australia or a British overseas territory that has attained self-government. ...

History

Demographics

Government

The province was administered by a Chief Commissioner appointed by the Federal Government. The province included the western district of Chagai which had a tenuous land link with the rest of the province.

See also

• Balochistan province
• Baluchistan States Union
• Politics of Pakistan
• History of Pakistan
• Robert Groves Sandeman

The province of Balochistan (or Baluchistan) in Pakistan contains most of historical Balochistan and is named after the Baloch. ... Pakistan has been ruled by both democratic and military governments. ... The History of Pakistan for times preceding 1947 overlaps with that of the history of Afghanistan, Iran, and India. ... Robert Groves Sandeman (1835-1892), Indian officer and administrator, was the son of General Robert Turnbull Sandeman, and was born on the 25th of February 1835. ...

External Links

• Government of Balochistan
• Government of Pakistan