'Memoir for the Indian Political Service - Scheme by Lieut. Colonel L.A.G. Pinhey O.B.E.' [‎8r] (15/44)

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Sibi District was in three divisions - The Northern Pathan
area based at Hamai and including the Chappah Rift and the
Khalifat Mountain Range and also the hill station of Ziarat
which was the Summer Headquarters of the A.Gr.G. and Staff as
well as the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. and the A.P.A. Sibi.
The P.A. Sibi had three houses - Sibi in the winter, Ziarat
in the summer and a small Rest Home in Hamai which was oc
cupied for about one month in the Spring and one in the Autumn.
The Sibi division of the Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. ran the area round Sibi itself
including the branch Railway to Harnai and Quetta, and also
the Baluchi tribal areas of the Marri and Bugti tribes. Sibi
bordered on Kalat State and Sindh in the south; the Punjab on
the East and Kalat State on the West. There was also a sep
arate Sub-Division of Nasirabad with Headquarters at Jhatpat
which comprised the Canal areas on the borders of Sindh inhab
ited entirely by Baluchi tribesmen who had been given the canal
irrigation area.
The two big Baluchi tribes of Marri and Bugti were, like other
tribal areas on the frontier, internally semi-independent but
under the general supervision of the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. in Sibi
and subject to the Frontier Crimes Regulation. Each tribe
was headed by a Nawab An honorific title; an official acting as a provincial deputy ruler in South Asia; or a significant Muslim landowner in nineteenth century India. who had autocratic powers in his own
tribal area for internal affairs.
The Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. in Sibi generally made a tour of these
two tribal areas during the winter, most of it on horseback
as there were no proper roads.
There was a separate Asst. P.A. in Jhatpat who administered
the canal area and he was the principal liaisoj^i between
Baluchistan and the Sindh authorities in Jacobad.
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The Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. generally made an extensive tour of the
Nasirabad Sub-Division during the winter and joint Jirgas
were held with the Sindh authorities. These related to water
and other disputes between the Baluchistan and Sindh tribes
as the control of water supplies was in the hands of the Sindh
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