Bolan Pass
Americannoun
noun
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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.
From BBC • Mar. 13, 2025
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.
From Reuters • Aug. 26, 2022
The best way to protect India from attack was to create buffer states along invasion routes, namely the Bolan Pass and Khyber Pass in Afghanistan.
From Forbes • Jun. 14, 2015
Many of their leaders settled in the bustling Pakistan city of Quetta, once an outpost of the British Empire that guarded the southern gateway to India from Afghanistan through the Bolan Pass.
From New York Times • Apr. 9, 2014
That part of our force which was not employed at Kelat went down by the Bolan Pass, and have suffered considerably from cholera, which luckily we have as yet escaped.
From Campaign of the Indus by Holdsworth, T.W.E.
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