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About Mastung
Mastung (Balochi and Urdu: مستونگ), is a town in the Balochistan province of Pakistan and serves as headquarters of Mastung District. It sits at an altitude of 1,701 metres (5583 feet). and is also the administrative centre for Mastung Tehsil, a subdivision of the district. The town is further divided into two Union Councils. Mastung is part of Sarawan, which was a division of the former princely state of Kalat.
From the Wikipedia article Mastung, Pakistan (this version), under CC BY-SA 4.0.
History
Mastung was known to the 10th-century geographers al-Muqaddasi and Istakhri, who both listed it among the towns in the province of Bālis, also called Bālish or Wālishtān, whose capital was Sibi.
The Ain-i-Akbari, written during the reign of the Mughal emperor Akbar in the late 1500s, lists Mastung as one of the 24 mahals included in the Sarkar of Kandahar. At that time, Mastung was defended by a mud brick fort and produced a yearly revenue of 10 tumans and 8,000 dinars in cash alongside 470 kharwars of grain. Its population was a mixture of Afghans and Balochs.
The 2017 Mastung suicide bombing killed 28 and injured 40. A 2018 suicide bombing killed 149 and injured 186. The town was once again the site of a suicide bombing in 2023.
From the History section of Mastung, Pakistan on Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Getting there and nearby towns
Quetta International Airport (UET) is the nearest airport with scheduled flights listed in OpenStreetMap, 51 km away.
- Quetta 45 km north, about 45 min by car
- Mach 47 km east, about 47 min by car
- Nushki 84 km west, about 1 h 30 min by car
- Dadhar 86 km southeast, about 1 h 30 min by car
- Pishin 88 km north, about 1 h 30 min by car
- Kalat 89 km south, about 1 h 30 min by car
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