**Baloch Vs Ghaznavid
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**the baloch were engaged in varous encounters with ghaznavid rulers who ruled a vast region of iran from last decade of tenth century until the end of ten century
the relation between ghaznavid and baloch has never been peaceful Turan Makran came under the ghanznavid rule founder sebuktegin suzerainty as early as AD 976-977 the baloch troops fought against sebuktegin when he attacked khuzdar
in 994 AD the baloch were in the army of saffarids amir khalaf and fought against mahmud ghaznavi when the ghaznavi forces invaded sistan in 1013 AD many of other occasion were mentioned by other historians of the ghaznavid era in which the baloch came into confrontation with the ghaznavi forces masud son of mahmud attacked kerman and occupied it for a perion of two years in AD 1034 and 1035 the baloch resisted the occupation of kerman by ghaznavid as an ally of local ruler on the pretext that baloch have robbed mahmud 's ambassador in the desert north of kerman between tabas and khabis according to nizam ul mulk a party of baloch marauders betweem tabas and khabis caught the ambassador of sultan and his party was looted to the last man, the ambassador came back met the sultan who was on his way to khwarezm(choresmia) while staying at bust the sultan sent his son Masud with a strong contingent to punish the baloch
the baloch fought fearlessly and defeated ghaznavids in the first encounter but were defeated by the ghaznavid forces in the next 2 encounters many were killed and captured and their settlements were looted and masud returned back with immense booty
during the reign of Masud several expeditions were sent to deal with the issue of ever hostile baloch while finding it hard to subjugate the baloch in classical ways of fighting the ghaznavi ruler resorted to poisoning of the baloch,
A caravan of poisoned apples on camels back were purposely sent through kerman desert the court historians of ghaznavid rulers including nizam al mulk, proudly stated the baloch attacked the caravan and devoured the apples as hungry wolves the poison acted as an epidemic and exterminated a great number of them made it easier for the ghaznavid to Attack Baluchistan **
**Ghaznavid Empire
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