Fruits Info

Visit Pishin at this time of the year and one would find thousands of acres of fruit orchards. The loaded harvest of apples, grapes, plums, peaches, and apricots is seen everywhere. The discovered the area, and the taste of the fruit, during a stay at the School of Infantry and Tactics, Quetta when we used to walk miles and miles for training maneuvers. It is still the same.

Legend attributes the origin of the name Pishin to a son of the Emperor Afrasiab. Until the middle of the 18th century, when Quetta lastly passed into the hands of Brahvi rulers, the history of Pishin is equal with the area of Kandahar. The earliest mention of Pishin is found in the ancient writing in which "Pishinorha" is described as a dale in an elevated part of the country containing a barren level plain.