'Memoir for the Indian Political Service - Scheme by Lieut. Colonel L.A.G. Pinhey O.B.E.' [‎18r] (35/44)

bought back from the Sultan of Muscat and Oman by the new
State of Pakistan and is now part of the Baluchistan Province
of Pakistan.
An amusing sideline on this story is that the writer The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping. in his
capacity as Secretary to the A.G.G. in Baluchistan in about
1939 drafted a report to the then Government of India support
ing the claim of the Khan of Kalat for the Gwadur enclave to
be returned to Kalat State as it had only been lent to the
one time Sultan of Muscat to help him while in exile in
Baluchistan, and some years later, about 1949, after indepen
dence , the writer The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping. as Secretary to the Resident (subsequently
Ambassador) in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. at Bahrain under the British
Foreign Office drafted a similar report to the F.O. emphasising
the Sultan's claim to the territory!
At the beginning of 1943 ‘the Khan of Kalat, Ahmed Yar Khan,
who was of a somewhat mercurial nature, had had enough of the
writer The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping. under the mistaken impression that he was biassed in
favour of the tribal chiefs as against the rights of the Khan
himself. A change was therefore made and Major Norman Ramsey
was appointed Wazir Minister. -i-Azam and the writer The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping. was posted as
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, a post which he had always desired
as the Sibi District was the most widespread and versatile
District in the whole of Baluchistan.
I held the post of 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. Sibi for a little more
than two years during which I toured the whole of the tribal
area. This of course was 100% Baluchi tribal area, run as
semi-self-administrating tribes with their own rulers, gener-
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ally either Sardas or Nawabs and under the direct 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. These Rulers,
particularly the Bugtis, were notoriously autocratic and the
Nawab An honorific title; an official acting as a provincial deputy ruler in South Asia; or a significant Muslim landowner in nineteenth century India. had full powers within his own tribal area except for
the death penalty. Any cases between one tribe and smother
or its individual members were decided at joint jirgas at
certain fixed times of the year. Many of these joint cases
were between tribes of Baluchistan and those of Sindh or
Punjab provinces which had joint bodi-es. £rc->v.
It is interesting to note here that these tribal areas which
were attached to Pakistan after Independence v/ere absorbed,
and lost their internal powers. In fact they have become,
according to Press reports, almost Communist and are a