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Kharan was an autonomous princely state of both British India and Pakistan, located in the southwest of modern Pakistan. It was established in about 1697 AD as a vassal state of Kalat, a status which remained until 1940. On 17 March 1948, Kharan acceded to Pakistan and on 3rd October 1952 it joined the Baluchistan States Union. The state was dissolved on 14th October 1955 when all regions of the western wing of Pakistan were merged to form the province of West Pakistan. When that province was dissolved, the territory of the former state of Kharan was organised as Kharan District in the province of Baluchistan. 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. ... This article details the former Pakistani region of the Baluchistan States Union. ... 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. ... Dir is an area in the North-West 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. ... A princely state is any state under the reign of a prince, both terms being taken in the broad sense. ... British India (otherwise known as The British Raj) was a historical period during which most of the Indian subcontinent, or present-day India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Myanmar, were under the colonial authority of the British Empire (Undivided India). ... The city of Kalat is located roughly in the center of Balochistan, Pakistan, south and slightly west of the provincial capital Quetta. ... This article details the former Pakistani region of the Baluchistan States Union. ... 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) of Pakistan contains roughly the part of Balochistan that falls within the borders of present-day Pakistan. ...

Rulers of Kharan

The hereditary rulers of Kharan held the title of Mir and from 1921 were also titled Sardar Bahadur Nawab. MIR is a TLA that could mean: Mail-in rebate Medical Inspection Room - the place for sick parade in most British and Commonwealth militaries and many NGOs. ...

See also

• Kharan District
• Baluchistan

Baluchistan (or Balochistan), also known as Greater Baluchistan is an arid region of south Asia, presently split between Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan. ...

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