The Lohani originated in the Loralai district of Balochistan, for which it is named, and in the Dera Ismail Khan District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, approximately equivalent to the former North-West Frontier Province of British India and later Pakistan.
[4]: 232 In 2006 a breed census found a total population of 560432 head.
[2] The coat is highly variable, but is most often red patched or spotted with white.
[4]: 232 The head is small in relation to the body, the horns thin and short.
[4]: 232 It may have some aptitude as a dairy animal: some records from the 1950s show milk yields of over 900 kg per lactation.