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Pishin treats Pishin District, in north-western Balochistan, as a cannabis growing area: the crops of bhang destroyed in the outskirts of Pishin, at Kali Manzarai and at Kali Malikyar in November and December 2025, and the hemp drugs in the sources of 1894 and 1907. The town of Pishin and the district as an administrative unit are separate subjects; a page on the town would take the title Pishin (city).
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Why Pishin is a growing area
- Three press reports of November and December 2025 describe crops of bhang destroyed in the district: several fields in the outskirts of Pishin (Daily Askar, 21 November 2025); a ready crop at Kali Manzarai, in an operation led by the assistant commissioner of Huramzai tehsil (Awaz Times, 21 November 2025); and more than 35 acres at Kali Malikyar (Daily Askar, 4 December 2025).
- The status is Active, on the reports of 2025. Destroying a crop and entering growers in the Fourth Schedule do not mean that growing has ended, and no source says it has.
- In 1894 the extra assistant commissioner at Pishin told the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission that hemp was not cultivated in his sub-division (Vol. VII, p. 369). The Quetta-Pishin gazetteer of 1907 says that hemp had been grown in one or two villages of the district until 1896 (p. 265); the Commission's report places those villages in the Quetta sub-division and names one, Ahmed Khanzai (Vol. I, para. 135). Neither source is evidence of growing in today's Pishin District.
Kali Malikyar and Barshore
- The report of 4 December 2025 places Kali Malikyar in Pishin. The operation there was ordered by the deputy commissioner of Pishin and led by the assistant commissioner of Barshore tehsil; the report does not say in which tehsil the village lies, and it could not be placed on a map.
- In OpenStreetMap, Barshore tehsil belongs to Karezat District, outside the line drawn here. If Kali Malikyar lies in Barshore tehsil, the largest crop reported for the area lies outside its border.
- A district administration of Barshore ordered the destruction of illegal opium and cannabis crops in September 2026; that report names no place or crop, and it is not filed under this area.
Extent and border
- The map border is approximate. It is drawn on Pishin District as mapped in OpenStreetMap (relation 16631601): the Huramzai, Pishin and Saranan tehsils.
- The map line keeps the land of the district below 4,000 m (SRTM elevation) that ESA WorldCover 2021 does not map as bare or sparse vegetation, permanent snow and ice, or open water; pockets inside the line are filled, pieces less than about 5 km apart are joined and the edge is smoothed. The line meets Qila Abdullah edge to edge. About 1,140 km² of the district's 2,217 km² remain, and the infobox area is rounded from that line.
- The town of Huramzai lies inside the line; Kali Manzarai, which the report places in Huramzai tehsil, could not be placed on a map.
- The point in the infobox is the town of Pishin, not a field.
Sources
- The Urdu press. The English titles in the references are translations. Bhang means the crop, cannabis. "Crores of rupees" (Awaz Times) is the report's own estimate of the crop's value.
- Indian Hemp Drugs Commission, Vol. VII. Witness no. 2, Kazi Imamuddin, Extra Assistant Commissioner, Pishin (p. 369), and witness no. 5, Waryam Singh, Hospital Assistant, Pishin (p. 371), as the printed headings name them.
- Baluchistan District Gazetteer Series, Vol. V: Quetta-Pishin District (1907). The scan held by the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics (handle 10973/36971). Title page: text by R. Hughes-Buller, assisted by Rai Sahib Diwan Jamiat Rai; Ajmer, Scottish Mission Industries, 1907; the preface is dated Quetta, September 1905. Used: p. 265 (the hemp drugs, the end of local cultivation in 1896, the sources of supply).