Bolan Pass
Americannoun
noun
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Authorities claimed they were militants killed after the Bolan Pass train hijacking, though this could not be independently verified.
From BBC • Mar. 22, 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
On the 23d of February, 1839, a simultaneous advance from Shikarpur, on the Bolan Pass, commenced.
From Afghanistan and the Anglo-Russian Dispute by Rodenbough, Theo. F.
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