Baloch of Afghanistan

[3][4] Baloch also have a presence in Helmand, Faryab, Takhar, Herat, Kandahar, Badakhshan and other parts of Afghanistan.

[5][6] The history of the Baloch presence in the land that is today called Afghanistan goes back early time.

[7] The author of the history of Sistan, in the description of the massacre and destruction of many, the Baloch and Majus around Hamun Lake, and mentions the presence of the Baloch in Sistan Basin(modern-day Balochistan in Nimruz province) the fifth century.

[8] Šahrestānīhā ī Ērānšahr is a surviving Middle Persian text on Sasanian administrative geography and history,[9] based on the source, Padishkhwārgar was a Sasanian province in and People who contributed to building 21 cities in Padishkhwargar were Baloch.

[10] Muhammad bin Khwandshah bin Mahmud, known as Mirkhvand, narrated in the book of Rawżat aṣ-ṣafāʾ, the battle of the Baloch led by Baloch Shah against Mubarak Shah the Khan of the Chagatai Khanate in Herat.

[11] The Baloch chiefdom, the Sanjranis family who ruled Sistan with its capital at Chakansur in the early and late 19th century.

[16] Baloch chieftains in Nimroz, Helmand, Farah and west bank of the river(Hirmand) had independent governments and were autonomous rulers of the region before the Goldsmith Treaty.

Wars and conflicts from Britain and its Qajar subordinates led to the disintegration of these regions and the collapse of the Baloch government.

[18][19] The Baloch were present in Kandahar, Nimroz, Helmand and other parts of present-day Afghanistan during the rule of the Khanate of Kalat.

The Baloch of Turkmenistan in the Merv and inner delta of the Murghab River are originally from the western and northern areas of Herat, Afghanistan, Chakhansur District in Nimroz Province, and Iran, who migrated in the mid-19th century.

[30] In the fall of 1978, Balochi was recognized as an official language of Afghanistan, alongside Pashto and Dari.

Ghulam Mohammad Lalzad Baloch is a Baluchi language broadcast journalist, based in Toronto, Canada.

He served as chairman of the National Council of the Baloch of Afghanistan and elected representative of the people of Nimroz Province in the Senate.