Armour of Baloch Hero Chakar e Azam

[Mir_Baloch]

Re: Armour of Baloch Hero Chakar e Azam

@marwati

Not exactly. According to contempory sources, largest representation in the standing army of nadir shah was of Afghans of abdali tribe, about 50 thousands. Among them 16 thousands were elite corps “the immortals” of which ahmad shah abdali was part of. Balochs had rather small representation, only 6 thousands. Mir baloch is saying that balochs “helped” nadir shah against ghilzai rulers of persia. He is forgetting that his balochs along with Afghans, bakhtiari, lur, uzbek, qizalbash and turkmen were paid soldiers of their king. Balochs were ruled by nadir shah, so were afghans and others. Now interesting fact is, nadir shah actually favoured recruitment of his ghilzai opponents. Even Ghilzais had infact larger representation than balochs. One of the top and senior general shah was a ghilzai, azad khan. Other generals were hussien khan qajar, karim khan zund, ali mardan khan etc who were native persians.

In 1739, Admiral Taqi Khan, commander of Nader Shah Afshar’s naval forces, invaded Gwadar balochistan on his way to Sindh. In search of provisions for his starving forces, he ventured into Kech balochistan where the Baloch forces, under the leadership of the ruler of Makran Mir Malik Dinar Baloch,** heavily defeated the Persians, and they were forced to withdraw from Gwadar Reference book (Lockhart, 1938).

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**In 1739, Taqi Khan attempted, under orders from Nāder Shah, to make a combined land-and-sea expedition to Sind, to meet Nāder Shah himself there as he returned with his army from the conquest of Delhi. The expedition was a complete failure; the troops ran short of food and water in the Makrān desert and were harassed and defeated by local Baluchis. The meeting never happened, and Taqi Khan had to pull back to Bandar ʿAbbās iran (Gombroon Diary entries for October and November 1739; Floor, 1987, pp. 46-47)****. **:cb:

http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/navy-i-nader-shah