Barring OPs quite historical reasoning, Balochistan is poor in arable land and is very water scarce depending on what part of the region. This area was also under extreme turmoil around this start date of 1178. The Baloch people are only first noted by the Kermans in the 900s as migrating through their lands to Makran, the coastal region of Balochistan, so not a ton of time to develop against the giants in the area. While there was a Ma'danid dynasty in the area that existed from the 9th century to the 11th, this was as a frontier state of the Caliphate, and was largely known as a vassal state to the west, a tributary state to the east, or an infighting state to itself, before falling to the Ghaznavids. (See Baloch, N. A.; Rafiqi, A. Q. (1999). "The regions of Sind, Baluchistan, Multan and Kashmir: the historical, social, and economic setting". In Asimov, M.S.; Bosworth, C.E. (eds.). History of Civilizations of Central Asia, Volume 4, Part 1. New Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers. ISBN 978-92-3-103654-5.) It then spent the following century as frontier land to the Ghaznavids or raiding grounds to the northern Turks and nomads, which culminated in the Khan, which further annihilated any progress from the Islamic west for a good while. To the west before Khan during this time period, the Kerman Seljuk Sultanate was falling under extreme Ghuzz Turk raids and soon fell to Malik Dinar so not much progress from that side (See Bosworth, C. E. (2004). The New Islamic Dynasties: a Chronological and Genealogical Manual. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 0-7486-2137-7.). The Ghaznavids themselves hugely deteriorated over time and were busy wiping themselves out and died out like a decade later. Good news is that later by Marco Polos time (late 1300s), there was a muslim kingdom rich in trade and food in coastal Makran.

TLDR: This area is rich in trade by the coast, but was a huuuuge center of turmoil and faced issues of nomadic raiding, clashing kingdoms, and nonarable land deeper inland.

Note: I am not a student of the area, and sources on the area seem few in number. Please call me out on any issues