Nushki

Nushki lies on a plain southwest of Quetta, at the edge of the plateau where the desert opens towards the Helmand country. The Pishin Lora passes through the wider district on its way to the inland Hamun-e Lora. In 1810 the British travellers Charles Christie and Henry Pottinger parted at Nushki: Christie went northwest towards Herat, while Pottinger crossed the deserts to the west. Their separate journeys illustrate the different routes that met at the edge of the Baluchistan desert.