Makran

Makran was the arid coast of southern Baluchistan on the Gulf of Oman. By the fourteenth century its coast was held by Baloch rulers of the Hot, or Kalmati, line.

Sultan Hammal Jiand destroyed a Portuguese fleet in 1549 and held Pasni and Gwadar until the Portuguese captured him in 1581. He died in captivity as the towns were sacked. In the seventeenth century the Gichki nawabs ruled Makran as a loose tribal principality, while Gwadar later passed to Oman.