section_path: History/Early history
section_name: Early history
paragraph_text: Early history
  
  Modern day Quetta was captured by Sultan Mahmud Ghaznavi during his invasion of India. In 1543, Mughal emperor Humayun came to Quetta en route to Safavid Persia, leaving his son and future Mughal emperor Akbar here. In 1709, the region was a part of Afghan Hotak dynasty and stayed a part until 1747 when Ahmed Shah Durrani conquered it and made it a part of Durrani Empire. The first European visited Quetta in 1828, describing it as mud-walled fort surrounded by three hundred mud houses.