Word: kalat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Great marched across it on the way home from India, two-thirds of the men died. But local folklore has it that Baluchistan's towering hills are carpets covering vast troves of mineral wealth. "We have a saying here," beams one local leader, the portly Khan of Kalat, "that a Baluch child may be born without socks on his feet, but when he grows every step he takes is on gold." The fact is that Baluchistan has a bit of oil, coal and natural gas, but not much else...