User:Mar4d/Baloch of KPK
| Regions with significant populations | |
|---|---|
| Dera Ismail Khan · Peshawar | |
| Languages | |
| Saraiki or Balochi · Urdu | |
| Religion | |
| Islam | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Baloch diaspora |
The Baloch of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa are the ethnic Baloch people residing in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
History[change | change source]
According to French historian Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy, northern Balochistan was linked to Central Asia by several antique trade routes, one of which was the Gomal Pass between Afghanistan and Dera Ismail Khan.[1]
The Dera Ismail Khan District of southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is home to a small, native Baloch population.[2]
In his book Searchlights on Balochis and Balochistan, Khuda Bakhsh Marri notes that the Baloch "settled in large numbers" throughout Dera Ismail Khan and several adjacent districts of Punjab.[3] During the British Raj in 1883, the Baloch population in Dera Ismail Khan district was estimated at 300,000 people.[3] The mass migration is explained due to the fact that, beginning from the 15th century, this region came under the rule of a Baloch dynasty belonging to the Dodai clan for over two centuries.[3] Its founder, Malik Sohrab, was a Baloch mercenary from Makran who bore allegiance to the ruler of Multan at the time, Shah Husayn of the Langah dynasty.[4] Husayn, as a matter of policy, was keen to settle allied Baloch tribes in his territories in order to consolidate his military power and domain.[4] Thus, he assigned this region straddling the Indus River to Sohrab, inviting him to settle
There are also many students from Balochistan who pursue their education at universities in Peshawar.[5]
as a matter of policy SHah Husayn settled Baloch mercenaries in Derajat.[4]
See also[change | change source]
References[change | change source]
- ↑ Chouvy, Pierre-Arnaud (30 September 2009). Opium: Uncovering the Politics of the Poppy. I.B.Tauris. p. 94. ISBN 978-0-85773-089-3.
- ↑ Kaye, Alan S. (30 June 1997). Phonologies of Asia and Africa: (including the Caucasus). Eisenbrauns. p. 761. ISBN 978-1-57506-019-4.
The main Balochi-speaking area is a huge one, however, extending as it does from Marw in Turkmenistan southwards in pockets through Iranian Khorasan, and then throughout the province of Balucestan-va-Sistan in Iran to the Gulf of Oman; in Afghanistan Balochi-speaking areas extend from Sistan in the west along the Hilmand Basin eastwards to Sorawak at the Pakistan frontier; in Pakistan throughout the province of Baluchistan, including a salient to the north-east as far as Dera Ismail Khan in the North-West Frontier Province; large numbers of Balochi speakers also live in Karachi and in other large cities in Sind...
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Marri, Mir Khuda Bakhsh (1 January 1997). Searchlights on Baloches and Balochistan. Ferozsons. ISBN 978-969-0-01373-6.
The extent of the Baloch population in Dera Ismail Khan region of N.W.F.P can be assumed on the basis of their very large settlements and a steady 200 year rule of the Dodai Baloches there. Thus in 1883 the population in the British territory totalled about 299,962 persons; and the Native states accounted for 55,276.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Rafiq, A.Q.; Baloch, N.A. THE REGIONS OF SIND, BALUCHISTAN, MULTAN AND KASHMIR: THE HISTORICAL, SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC SETTING (PDF). UNESCO. ISBN 978-92-3-103467-1.
- ↑ "Baloch students in Peshawar protest Quetta carnage". The News International. 27 October 2016. Retrieved 22 August 2019.