Bolan Pass

[boh-lahn]

noun

1. a mountain pass in W Pakistan. About 60 miles (97 km) long.

Bolan Pass

/ bəʊˈlɑːn /

noun

1. a mountain pass in W central Pakistan through the Brahui Range, between Sibi and Quetta, rising to 1800 m (5900 ft)

Example Sentences

Earlier this month, the BLA hijacked a train in Bolan Pass, seizing hundreds of passengers.

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Authorities claimed they were militants killed after the Bolan Pass train hijacking, though this could not be independently verified.

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In the depths of central Pakistan's Bolan Pass, a pocket of wilderness so remote that there is no internet or mobile network coverage, the nine-coach Jaffar Express ground to a halt.

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A major railway bridge washed away between Kolpur and Mach in Bolan Pass, cutting off Quetta, the capital of southwestern Balochistan, from the rest of country for indefinite period, officials said.

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The other illustration here is from an article about a British military light railway built in 1885 in the Bolan Pass in what is now Pakistan.

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