Gulistan

Gulistan lies northwest of Quetta in the highland country between Pishin and Kandahar. Mountain ridges frame the valleys along this old passage between the Afghan interior and Baluchistan. The Pishin Lora drains the neighbouring valley, eventually winding southwest towards an inland basin in the desert. Kandahar and the Quetta-Pishin country changed hands between the Safavids and Mughals, and in the early eighteenth century the rise of the Ghilzai at Kandahar brought the region under a new Afghan power.