Khuzdar

Khuzdar, formerly Qazdar, lay in a narrow valley of central Baluchistan, controlling routes between Makran, Sindh and the Afghan highlands. It had served as the chief city of Turan.

Khuzdar later became the capital of the Brahui kingdom of Makran. In the early seventeenth century it belonged to the kingdom of Jhalawan, then fell under the Khanate of Kalat. As Jhalawan’s chief city, it oversaw a region including Wadh, Nal and the road to Bela.