حزب مردم بلوچستان  Balochistan People’s Party  بلوچستانءِ اُستمانءِ گــَل

 

 

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