Dowzdāb

Dowzdāb lies in the dry borderlands of southeastern Iran, where the Sistān basin gives way to Baloch country toward what is now Pakistan and Afghanistan. Its older name, Duzdab, is Persian for “stolen water” and recalls the abrupt floods that burst into the valley and vanished again. The place was a small oasis in a stony desert of low hills, where springs and wells let Baloch herders keep their livestock.