Balochistan[1] (Balochi: گۏریچی بلۏچستان) or Afghan Baluchistan is an arid, mountainous region that includes part of southern and southwestern Afghanistan.

[5] The border of Balochestan in the reign of Nasir khan stretched from across modern-day Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan.

In the East stretched as far as Punjab including Dera Ghazi Khan, in the south Makran coast along the Arabian Sea from karachi to bandar abbas, in the western included Persian Balochistan (modern-day Sistan and Baluchestan Province in Iran), Kerman and Bandar abbas.

[6] Sanjranis family who ruled Sistan with its capital at Chakansur in the early and late 19th century.

[13][14] Baloch also have a presence in Helmand, Faryab, Takhar, Herat, Kandahar, Badakhshan and other parts of Afghanistan.