The allies headed towards Shadman against Buyan, but he fled to Badakhshan, whose ruler, Baha' ad-Din, similarly fled when they invaded his territory.
Mir Yar Beg was a ruler within Badakhshan, who in the early 19th century was defeated by the khan of Kunduz, Mir Muhammad Murad Beg.
"Balas" is derived from Balascia, the ancient name for Badakhshan, a region in central Asia situated in the upper valley of the Kokcha River, one of the principal tributaries of the Oxus River.
In the 2010 Afghan parliamentary election, Pedram received 8,469 votes in Badakhshan, being the third representative from that province to be elected into the parliament, after Fawzia Koofi and Zalmai Mojadidi.
Shahri Buzurg District, one of the 29 districts of Badakhshan Province in eastern Afghanistan
In 1198, Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn Fakhr, the successor and son of Fakhr al-Din Masud, conquered Balkh, Chaghaniyan, Vakhsh, Jarum, Badakhshan, and Shighnan from the Kara-Khitan Khanate, and was given the title of Sultan by Ghiyas.
Panam, Afghanistan, a village in Badakhshan Province in north-eastern Afghanistan
Badakhshi merchants sold attractive Chitral girls in Yarkand, China, for 20-25 pounds sterling, and this trade was facillated by Chinese officials.
Montgomerie recruited a number of individuals to survey Chitral and Badakhshan, including Hyder Shah, who in 1870 traveled through the princely states of Swat and Dir and Badakhshan.
Ethnic groups from the Garm and Gorno-Badakhshan regions, which were underrepresented in the ruling elite, rose up against the national government of President Rahmon Nabiyev, in which people from the Leninabad and Kulyab regions dominated.