With the arrest of the princes and loss of a lot of manpower, the rebellion ultimately came to an end in 1950 with Pakistan recapturing all territories.

The province's Shahi Jirga and the non-official members of the Quetta Municipality opted for Pakistan unanimously on 29 June 1947.

[2] The ruler of the fourth princely state, the Khan of Kalat, Ahmad Yar Khan, who used to call Jinnah his 'father',[3] declared Kalat's independence as this was one of the options given to all of the 535 princely states by British Prime Minister Clement Attlee.

[6] Princes Karim Khan and Muhammad Rahim refused to lay down arms and lead the Dosht-e Jhalawan (numbering around 1000 militants)[7] in unconventional attacks on the army.

[13][8][12][11] Prince Karim Khan and some other Baloch separatist leaders such as Qadir Bakhsh Nizamani, Muhammad Hussain Anqa, Malik Saeed Dehwar, and Moulvi Muhammad Afzal, went to Afghanistan in May 1948, to obtain material and financial support from the Afghan government and the Soviet Union,[13][7] but they failed to obtain any financial or military assistance although Prince Abdul Karim was granted refuge in Afghanistan[13][14] Afghan government wanted to rather annex Balochistan as it was in desperately in need of a sea port.