Word: kalat
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...into the hands of the Sultans of Muscat and Oman in the 18th century when Syed, heir to the Muscat sultanate, tried to seize the throne, failed, and fled across the Arabian Sea to escape his father's wrath. Gwadar at that time belonged to the Khan of Kalat, who welcomed Syed in princely fashion and made him a handsome offer. "You can have the revenues of as much land as you can see," declared the Khan. The wily Syed shinned up the tallest date palm in sight and laid claim to everything on the horizon. Syed later made...
...minded officials wanted assurances that the government jobs in their provinces would continue to go .to the locals. But the regime has already installed its men as governors of the four West Pakistan provinces, and they will cooperate in the provincial dissolution. The princely rulers-including the Khan of Kalat, the Wali of Swat and the Jam Saheb of Las Bella-noting the direction of the wind, obediently consented that their states should be wiped...
Added last week to Quetta's 26,000 dead were estimates of at least 30,000 more buried in the ruins of a hundred villages and towns from Kalat to Mastung. Survivors at Quetta watched with weary awe last week as another earthquake split a mountain in the distance and made a depression where the peak had been...
...quake swept up the Plain of No Riches, along the farther side of the Suliman mountain wall. When it stopped, Quetta, Kalat, Mastung, Shikapur and dozens of villages were a plain of rubble. Alert Sir Alexander yelled to his household to stand in the doorways. The house tumbled but the doorways stood. Then Sir Alexander went to work...
Prime fear of the British last week was that the superstitious natives would blame the whole thing on the British Raj, for the shaken area was entirely within the northern square of Baluchistan which Britain rules as a territory. And the ancient citadel of the Khan of Kalat, friend of the British, lay in ruins, as though for a judgment...