Baluchistan is semi-desert plateaux and mountain ranges.
Rainfall is monsoonal but amounts vary depending on altitude and aspect.
In 1971 West and East Pakistan separated, East Pakistan declaring independence as Bangladesh. Pakistani politics have a history of short-term administrations, military influence and corruption. In early 1993 Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif proposed constitutional amendments limiting the power of President Ghulam Ishaq Khan, thus bringing the two men into conflict. In April 1993, the president dismissed the prime minister, but a month later he was reinstated by the Supreme Court. The army intervened and forced the resignation of both men.