Baluchistan

Balochistan is a land of contrasts. It is the largest province of Pakistan with smallest population— only 5.5 million hardly equal to the population of a modest sized city of the country. Almost half of the population lives within 80 km i.e. 50 miles of the provincial capital Quetta. It has hottest places like Sibi and Dhader where temperature shoots up to over 1200 F as well as coldest towns like Quetta, Kalat, Ziarat, Kan Mehtar Zai, where mercury falls much below the freezing point. It has highly fertile lands like Nasirabad area as well as regions that are lying thirsty for centuries where even a bush could hardly be sighted for miles in the vast expanses of Sibi and Dasht-e-Makran. Composition of population consists of Brauvi speaking Dravidians, Jats or Zutts of Indian origin. In the North West Balochistan Pathans make up the majority. People speak Brauvi, Baluchi and Pashto. They are highly illiterate, ignorant, poverty ridden ruled by their hereditary Sardars who themselves and their offsprings are well educated, leading life of affluence and luxury. This irrational equation that exists between the Sardars and their tribes is the main source of problems from which the province suffers and in consequence creates acute