Kharan

Kharan is a dry inland region of western Baluchistan, bounded by mountain ranges and crossed by routes between the surrounding valleys. The Nausherwani chiefs ruled here, and Kharan emerged as a state linked to the Khanate of Kalat in the late seventeenth century. Relations between the two powers were not always peaceful; in the eighteenth century the ruler of Kalat, Nasir Khan, moved against Kharan and neighbouring territories.