Balochistan: India asks Pak to show restraint

Re: Balochistan: India asks Pak to show restraint

Kalat was ruled by Mir Ahmed Yar Khan](Permission error - Wikipedia), who wanted independence rather than possible Pakistani rule. Indeed, the British had given many Princely States the choice of either India, Pakistan or independence during the immediate pre-partition period (though they were worried of having too many independent nations). When the British eventually gave India (and the newly-created Pakistan) independence in August 1947 Mir Ahmed Yar Khan declared Kalat’s independence. Though this was not a Baloch-wide movement, many Baloch chiefs sympathised with the idea.
In April 1948 the Pakistani army was brought in, and Mir Ahmed Yar Khan signed an accession agreement ending Kalat’s de facto independence. His brother, Prince Abdul Karim, decided to carry on the struggle. Basing himself in Afghanistan he conducted a guerrilla war against the Pakistani army. However, this eventually failed.
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