Sonamiani

Sonmiani lies on a broad bay at the southern end of the Las plain. Once a fishing village known as Miani, it became a port for the inland country of Baluchistan. Mudflats and the shifting channels of the bay made access from the sea dependent on the tide, while routes inland led towards the inland towns of Bela and Kalat.

Merchants used Sonmiani to exchange goods between the interior and ports of the western Indian Ocean. Henry Pottinger, who travelled through the region in 1810, noted the town's active trade and the part played in it by Hindu merchants. The port exported wool by the 1830s, adding a product of the inland pastoral country to the cargoes carried out through the bay.