Quetta is the capital of the province of the Balouchistan to the Pakistan.

Located at the south-west of the country, close to the border of the Afghanistan, in a relatively populated zone, it is a city of more than 2 million inhabitants of which a majority of Pachtounes. The city is an important pole of transit between the Afghanistan and the Pakistan. Located at a 1900 meters height to the top of the sea level, the city is regarded as the “fruit basket” of Pakistan.

History

Old story

It is not established exactly when Quetta was founded, but probably about the year 600. The area belongs to the Persian Empire Sassanide, then is annexed by the Califat Rashidun at the time of the Islamic conquest with. Then the territory is integrated into the Empire Ommeyade and Abasside. The city is mentioned with the E as being taken by Mahmud de Ghazni at the time of one of its invasions of the sub-continent.

In 1543, the emperor Moghol Humayun stops there in his retirement towards Persia, leaving there his one year old son Akbar, until his return 2 years later. Moghuls reign on Quetta until in 1556, date on which Persians seize some, then is taken again by Akbar in 1595.

Under the British domination

In 1828, the first Westerner visits Quetta, and describes it like a fort with the peat walls surrounded by 300 houses of cob. Briefly occupied by the British during the First Afghan war in 1839, it is not before 1876 that Quetta passes entirely under British domination and that Robert Sandeman is named political agent of Balouchistan. Since the Partition of India, the population increased in a spectacular way.

Simple: Quetta