[3][4] Baloch also have a presence in Helmand, Faryab, Takhar, Herat, Kandahar, Badakhshan and other parts of Afghanistan.[5][6] The history of the Baloch presence in the land that is today called Afghanistan goes back early time.[7] The author of the history of Sistan, in the description of the massacre and destruction of many, the Baloch and Majus around Hamun Lake, and mentions the presence of the Baloch in Sistan Basin(modern-day Balochistan in Nimruz province) the fifth century.[8] Muhammad bin Khwandshah bin Mahmud, known as Mirkhvand, narrated in the book of Rawżat aṣ-ṣafāʾ, the battle of the Baloch led by Baloch Shah against Mubarak Shah the Khan of the Chagatai Khanate in Herat.The Baloch chiefdom, the Sanjranis family who ruled Sistan with its capital at Chakansur in the early and late 19th century.[24] In the fall of 1978, Balochi was recognized as an official language of Afghanistan, alongside Pashto and Dari.Ghulam Mohammad Lalzad Baloch is a Baluchi language broadcast journalist, based in Toronto, Canada.
Baloch Balisht(Pillow), late 19th century, Nimruz
Naeem Baloch, center, the governor of Helmand province