In 904 AH (1498-9 AD), the Portuguese admiral and explorer Vasco da Gama discovered the Indian Ocean and reached the shores of India.
After reaching India, the Portuguese established a base there and engaged in piracy and plundering of merchant ships at sea.
[5] Due to this, Mir Hammal decided that he would take revenge and fight the pirates their forces in the coastal area of Balochistan.
In order to repel future attacks by the enemy, and since he ruled on the vast coasts of Balochistan, he strengthened a small war fleet that had been formed during the time of Sardar Jihand his father, and organized it with good strategy, and by means of it he did not allow the Portuguese to even approach the coasts of Balochistan.
[7][1] In 1549, a Portuguese fleet under the command of Luís Figueira,at the request of the servants of lower Sindh, raided Baloch settlements along the Makran coast.
The sailors and companions of hammal shocked by the sudden attack of the Portuguese, took up their swords and ran, all of them jumping into the sea in a panic and fleeing toward the shore.
Mir Hammal Jiand is a significant figure in Baloch history, Culture and balochi literature,[10] particularly noted for his role during the conflicts with Portuguese colonial forces in the 16th century.
[12] The first Balochi feature film, Hammal O Mahganj, was produced by Anwar Iqbal and released in Pakistan in 1976.