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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 917 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NUSHKI  , a

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town and
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district of
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Baluchistan . The town lies ,-o M.
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south-
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west of
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Quetta, and is situated in a
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plain at the
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base of the Quetta
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plateau, 2900 ft. above the
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sea . Pop . (1901) 644 . From this point the
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flat Baluchistan
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desert stretches away northwards and westwards to the
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Helmund
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river . The
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administration of the Nushki district was taken over from the
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khan of
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Kalat by the
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Indian
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government in 1896, and was leased from him on a perpetual quit
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rent in 1899 . In 1902 a railway of 91 M. was sanctioned from Quetta to Nushki, which was com-pleted in 1905 . This railway makes Nushki the starting-point of the
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caravan route to
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Seistan . From the strategic point of view a force operating from Nushki would flank any advance from the
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north on
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Kandahar, and would also guard the south-west approach to the fortress of Quetta .

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