According to the Pakistan Environmental Protection Agency's report published on protected areas in 1997, Balochistan has 27 archaeological sites and monuments protected by the Federal Government.
[1] These include the province's only national monument; Ziarat Residency.
Additionally it has one site on the tentative world heritage list, Mehrgarh.
[2] Of the some 400 sites and monuments protected under the Antiquities Act 1975, the province contains seven sites in Category 1, eight in Category II and fourteen in Category III.
[3] The following sites were previously protected under the Federal Government.