Baloches from Kerman

Certain it is that soon after the above-quoted accounts were written there was a

wholesale migration of the Baloches from Kerman, and there is some reason to
believe that before establishing themselves in Mekran and on the Sindh frontier
they made a temporary settlement in Sistan. Such a movement had already
begun, as the names of the provinces in Sistan given by Istakhri show; and later
on the author of the ‘Tabakat-i-Nasiri’ notes that he halted in Sistan at a place
called Gumbaz-i-Baloch, a slight indication, but sufficient to show their presence
in the country. There is, however, no historical evidence as to what happened to
the Baloches during this period previous to their appearance in Sindh, which is
first mentioned in the middle of the thirteenth century.