{"id":37522,"date":"2025-05-10T04:48:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T23:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=37522"},"modified":"2025-05-27T11:04:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T05:34:55","slug":"balochistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/balochistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Balochistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Balochistan Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>The Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) has claimed that it has captured several strategic army posts across Balochistan that include the provincial capital, Quetta.<\/p>\n<h2>About Balochistan<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Balochistan lies\u00a0<strong>mostly in western Pakistan<\/strong>\u00a0but also\u00a0<strong>extends into southeastern Iran.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is the traditional homeland of the Baloch people, after whom it is named.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Balochistan (also spelled Baluchistan) is<strong>\u00a0bounded on the north by Afghanistan\u00a0<\/strong>and on the\u00a0<strong>south by the Arabian Sea.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>Pakistani province named Balochistan<\/strong>\u00a0covers an area of 347,190 sq.km.\u00a0\n<ul>\n<li>It is the\u00a0<strong>country\u2019s largest but least populated province.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Its\u00a0<strong>capital is Quetta<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>Baloch and Pashtun people<\/strong>\u00a0make up the two major and more distinct ethnic groups. The\u00a0<strong>third major group<\/strong>\u00a0consists of people who are of mixed ethnicity but mainly of\u00a0<strong>Sindhi origin.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Most of the people practice Islam,<\/strong>\u00a0and most speak languages of the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian language family.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>main languages are Balochi, Brahui, Pashto, and Sindhi.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>largest towns<\/strong>\u00a0and main trade centers in Balochistan are\u00a0<strong>Quetta, in Pakistan, and Zahedan, in Iran.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>History<\/strong>:\u00a0\n<ul>\n<li>It was ruled by the Greeks after being\u00a0<strong>conquered by Alexander the Great in 330 bc.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Arabs held most of the region from the 7th to the 10th century.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>British annexed most of Balochistan to India in the late 19th century.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>When British rule ended<\/strong>\u00a0in India in 1947 and the colony was divided,\u00a0<strong>much of Balochistan became part of Pakistan.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Balochistan FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1:<\/strong>\u00a0Balochistan lies primarily in which country?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0Pakistan<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2:<\/strong>\u00a0What is the capital of the Pakistani province of Balochistan?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0Quetta<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3:<\/strong>\u00a0Which sea borders Balochistan to the south?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0Arabian Sea<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/zeenews.india.com\/world\/amid-india-pakistan-war-bla-captures-key-army-posts-in-balochistan-2898215.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ZEE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Balochistan is a vast region primarily in western Pakistan, with parts extending into southeastern Iran, known for its rugged terrain and strategic location.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":47218,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[407,21,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-37522","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-balochistan","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","11":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}