Quetta District
Area	2.65 km²
Population (2005)  • Density	850,000  • /km²
Time zone	PST (UTC+4:30)
Established  • District Nazim  • District Naib Nazim  • District Council  • Number of Tehsils	April 1983  • {{{nazim}}}  • {{{naib_nazim}}}  • {{{seats}}} seats   • {{{tehsils}}}
Main language(s)	Balochi, Pashtu, Persian, Brahui
Website	http://www.bdd.sdnpk.org/Quetta.html

Quetta is a district in the north west of Balochistan province of Pakistan. Quetta then part of Afghanistan, was captured in second Afghan War (1879)by the British troops.The area was inhabited by the Kansi(Pashtun) Tribe. Being the outskirt of Kandahar, it was not mush developed. With the arrival of British troops, doors of development were opened. Very soon people saw roads, train and Schools in the area. However the Britishers made a historic treachery by naming the Pashtun area as British Balochistan. (Word Balochistan was used for the first time in History). In April 1883 it was combined with Pishin into a single administrative unit. In 1975, Quetta and Pishin were made separate districts. Now the district consists of two Towns: [Zarghoon and Chiltan}. The district also comprises one Sub-Tehsil (Punjpai). Over 90% of the people of the area are Muslims. The population of Quetta district is estimated to be over 850,000 in 2005. Pashtun make up more than 50% of the population of the capital district while a large number of Balochs, Khetran, Hazara,Muhair_Urud(offten called as India till now) and Punjabi settlers also dwell in Quetta. The Population of Quetta saw two surges ie in 1970-71, when Quetta was made capital of newly formed province Balochistan. During this period large number of Balochs came to Quetta in search of jobs and settled due to the comparatively better infra structure and job situation. The second surge in population occurred in the 80s when a large number of Afghan Refugees entered Quetta when the Soviet Union invaded Adghanistan. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 656 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (699 × 639 pixel, file size: 23 KB, MIME type: image/png) I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the... To help compare orders of magnitude of different geographical regions, we list here areas between 10,000 km² and 100,000 km². See also areas of other orders of magnitude. ... Population density by country, 2006 Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. ... A time zone is a region of the Earth that has adopted the same standard time, usually referred to as the local time. ... Pakistan Standard Time (PST) is the time zone for Pakistan. ... The equivalent terms tehsil, tahsil, tahasil, taluka, taluk, and taluq refer to a unit of government in some countries of the Indian subcontinent. ... Balochi (also Baluchi, Baloci or Baluci) is a Southeastern Iranian language. ... Pashto (پښتو; also known as Afghan, Pushto, Pashto, Pashtoe, Pashtu, and Pukhto) is the language spoken by the ethnic Afghan otherwise known as the Pashtun people who inhabit Afghanistan and the Western provinces of Pakistan. ... Look up Persian in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The Brahui (بروہی) or Bravi (براوِ) language, spoken by the Brahui, is mainly spoken in Balochistan, Pakistan, although it is also spoken in Afghanistan and Iran. ... A website (or Web site) is a collection of web pages, images, videos and other digital assets and hosted on a particular domain or subdomain on the World Wide Web. ... The Districts of Pakistan form the third tier of government in Pakistan, ranking as subdivisions of the provinces of Pakistan. ... The province of Balochistan (or Baluchistan) (Urdu: بلوچستان) in Pakistan is the largest in the country by geographical area. ... Pishin, or Peshin is a district of Baluchistan with a town of the same name. ... A Muslim (Arabic: مسلم, Turkish: Müslüman, Persian and Urdu: مسلمان, Bosnian: Musliman) is an adherent of Islam. ... Khetran (Urdu: کھیتران ) is a Baloch tribe in Balochistan, Pakistan. ...

It was part of Quetta Division. Quetta Division was an administrative division of the Balochistan Province of Pakistan, until the reforms of 2000 abolished the third tier of government. ...

Administrative Divisions of Balochistan (Pakistan)
Capital	Quetta
Districts	Awaran | Barkhan | Bolan | Chagai | Dera Bugti | Gwadar | Jafarabad | Jhal Magsi | Kalat | Kech | Kharan | Khuzdar | Kohlu | Lasbela | Loralai | Mastung | Musakhel | Nasirabad | Nushki | Panjgur | Pishin | Qilla Abdullah | Qilla Saifullah | Quetta | Sibi | Zhob | Ziarat