Mss Eur F126/22, ff 153-155

Letter enclosing reports and a political diary from Captain Charles Henry Harrison, Political Agent at Khelat [Kalāt] and offering his observations on the matters raised from them.

Colonel Phayre's observations relate to the use by the Khan of Khelat of the title 'Khan of Beloochistan [Baluchistan]; ongoing correspondence between the Khan and Individuals in Seistan [Sīstān]; and enclosing copies of some entries from the Political Diary for Cabool [Kabul] relating to the actions of men from Beloochistan in plundering subjects of Afghanistan.

Enclosed with the letter are the following:

• Letter No.67 of 1870 from Captain Charles Henry Harrison, Political Agent, Khelat to Colonel Robert Phayre, The Political Superintendent, Frontier Upper Sind, 21 August 1870 informing the Colonel that in official correspondence the Khan refers to himself as 'Khan of Khelat', but that the official seal of the Agent of the Court (Harrison) says 'Political Agent Beloochistan and Magistrate Frontier Upper Sind' and that the use of the term 'Khan of Beloochistan' was simply intended to allude to His Highness as the sovereign of that country.
• Letter No.63 of 1870 from Captain Charles Henry Harrison, Political Agent, Khelat to Colonel Robert Phayre, The Political Superintendent, Frontier Upper Sind, 19 August 1870 forwarding letters from Seistan [Sīstān] which the Khan had shared with him, and noting that they had been sent without any solicitation from His Highness. A postscript to the letter notes that he had hoped to obtain some geographical information from a Seistanee [Sīstāni] residing at Khelat but that his information was too confusing to report.
• Translation of the substance of a letter from Surfuraz Khan, Sirdar of the Sungranees, Chagee to His Highness the Khan of Khelat and Beloochistan stating that the Belooch [Baluch] in Seistan [Sīstān] consider themselves to be his subjects, and stating that his intereference on their behalf is their only hoped against the Gujjurs, who are aided by the Persian Government.
• Translation of the substance of a letter from Sirdar Kumal Khan Tokee to Sirdar Surfuraz Khan Sunjranee stating that Vakeels had arrived from the Governments of Persia and Afghanistan, at the instruction of the British Government, to restore property that had been plundered from them, and that the boundaries of the area had been changed again with some given to Afghanistan and others to Persia, leaving their Belooch country without a ruler.
• 'Diary by the Political Agent, Khelat, from 15th to 21st August 1870' reporting on the arrival of Sirdar Meetah Khan Shaook, and his satisfactory report from Beyla [Bela]; the arrangements made by His Highness for a Vakeel to accompany Sirdar Fuquir Mahomed to Kedj; stating that His Highness had not replied to any of the letters received from Seistan; and regarding news of arrangements for the boundaries in Afghanistan and Persia, along with Ibrahim Khan Sunjranee having been given the Belooch possessions, which he refused until the town of Deh was also restored to him. The diary reports that as yet the matter had not been finally settled.