Khojak Pass (el. ) is a mountain pass connecting
Qila Abdullah Qilla Abdullah or Killa Abdullah or Abdullah Qilla is the name of a historic fort (''qilla'') built by Sardar Abdullah Khan Ahmedzai (1716–1731), a Khan of Kalat.
It is located in the Killa Abdullah District
Kila Abdullah District or Qilla Abd ...
with
Chaman
Chaman (Balochi, Pashto and ur, ) is a city and recently claimed as a new district of Balochistan named Chaman District as it was earlier a part of district Qila Abdullah District located on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. It is the capital of ...
in the province of
Baluchistan
Balochistan ( ; bal, بلۏچستان; also romanised as Baluchistan and Baluchestan) is a historical region in Western and South Asia, located in the Iranian plateau's far southeast and bordering the Indian Plate and the Arabian Sea coastline. ...
,
Pakistan
Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 24 ...
. The road through the
Toba Achakzai range connects the larger cities of
Quetta
Quetta (; ur, ; ; ps, کوټه) is the tenth most populous city in Pakistan with a population of over 1.1 million. It is situated in south-west of the country close to the International border with Afghanistan. It is the capital of the ...
, Pakistan, and
Kandahar
Kandahar (; Kandahār, , Qandahār) is a city in Afghanistan, located in the south of the country on the Arghandab River, at an elevation of . It is Afghanistan's second largest city after Kabul, with a population of about 614,118. It is the ca ...
,
Afghanistan
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.
*
Khojak railroad tunnel long; pictured on the old five rupees note.
* Small forts defend the pass on each hill top.
*"Historically, the
Achakzai, across the Khojak Mountains, have controlled the smuggling routes around the Khojak Pass, one of the two major mountain passes that connect the
Middle East
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with the
Indian subcontinent
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, the other being the more famous"
Khyber Pass
The Khyber Pass (خیبر درہ) is a mountain pass in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, on the border with the Nangarhar Province of Afghanistan. It connects the town of Landi Kotal to the Valley of Peshawar at Jamrud by traversi ...
.
"The Master of Spin Boldak: Undercover with Afghanistan’s drug-trafficking border police"
by Matthieu Aikins, ''Harper's Magazine
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'', December, 2009, p. 54. Note: The writer traversed the Pass, "arriv ngin the town of Chaman after four hours on a crumbling road." p. 53. Retrieved 2010-04-20.
References
Notes
* ''Encyclopedia of Pakistan'' by Zahid Hussain Anjum. Jahangir Book Depot, Pakistan (2005–06)
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Mountain passes of Balochistan (Pakistan)
Mountain passes of Pakistan