The Khan of Kalat Mir Mehrab Khan Baloch I (1695 - 1697)
Mir Mehrab Khan succeeded his father Mir Ahmad as the next Khan of the Baloch. The Khanate of Kalat soon found itself in a bloody confrontation with a Kalhora rulers of Sindh and witnessed a period of violent struggle between the contenders for the throne of Kalat that made further consolidation of the Khanate of Kalat to a standstill. In the seventeenth century, the Kalhora tribe had appeared as a formidable force and gained recognition from prince Mu'azzuddin, the Mughal governor of Multan, to rule Sindh and the rulers of dynasty were endowed with the title of Nawabs by the Mughal emperors. The Kalhora family entered into conflicts with the Barozai Pashtuns of Kachchi for personnel reasons, and it appears that by default, Mir Mehrab Khan became preoccupied during his tenure as the Khan of the Baloch with the Kalhoras of Sindh. As the Barozai Pashtuns were under the protection of Mughals, the Mughal prince Mu'azzam led an expeditionary force against Kalhoras and forced theirs chiefs to flee. In 1697 the Mughal prince Mu'azzam asked Mir Mehrab Khan to locate and arrest the fugitive Kalhora brothers who were reported to be hiding in Khan's territory (Raverty,1988). The Khan confronted the Kalhora chiefs near Karkh and arrested them after a minor resistance from them. However, the Khan was mistakenly hit by the arrow of his own entourage and died after three days. The Kalhora issue was settled, in which the successor of Mir Mehrab Khan played the mediating role in reconciling the Kalhora chiefs and prince Mu,azzam who was the governor of the Mughal provinces of Multan, Sindh, Sibi, and the surrounding areas. His nephew, Mir Samandar Khan, succeeded Mir Mehrab Khan as the next Khan of the Baloch.
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