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Balochistan (Pakistan) KHAN GAMES
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Photograph by Sylvia A. Matheson, National
Geographic Image Collection
Children of Baluchistan's Khan of Kalat play on the palace grounds around
1950. Their father, Mir Ahmad Yar Khan, told journalist Sylvia A. Matheson—who
took this photo—he'd designed his palace to resemble the Queen Mary, "with
several 'decks' and his own personal quarters in the 'Captain's Cabin' on
the top 'deck,' " she wrote. In 1948, Kalat became part of Pakistan. That
nation's government later removed Mir Ahmad Yar Khan from power, though he
was part of a brief, unsuccessful rebellion in 1958. As he barricaded
himself within, "One shell from the encamped Pakistanis took off the top
storey of the minaret attached to his private mosque by the side of the
palace," noted Matheson. "A second shattered a corner of his living-room."
—Margaret G. Zackowitz
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