Wāshuk

Washuk lies in the dry highlands of western Baluchistan, between the Kharan basin and the Rakhshan valley. The Siahan range separates these districts, its ridges extending towards the mountains of Makran. Local tradition attributes the founding of Washuk to Malik Dinar, who stopped in the desert and chose to settle there after finding sleep on his journey from Bampur. The Rakhshan River rises farther east near the Nidoki pass and flows through the long valley south of the Siahan mountains.