Balochistan 1/3

A land rich in culture and minerals, Baluchistan is the province that well be talking about today. The landscape itself is fascinating. Traveling has always been spontaneous I had the opportunity to travel to Quetta in mid-February this year. As it was my first visit to this part of the country, I was very eager to explore this province. Quetta is the capital of Baluchistan so it is more developed then the rest of the province.  

With few days on hand and a lot to cover , the first place that I wanted to visit was the chaman border . Chaman is a city that is connected with the border of Afghanistan. The most unusual and fascinating thing about this border is that there’s a mosque on the border line on door opens from Pakistan and the other is in Afghanistan. The mosque was closed at that time due to the tensions between both the authorities.

 This border is controlled by Pakistani authorities and the concrete building that you can see in the above picture is the property of Pakistan. During the initial days of the war this border was the main supply route for the NATO containers and building on the right is border control management by the nato forces .If you’re lucky enough to get on the building the one with the Quaids picture on it this is how the other side looks. 

 

Chaman border is appromxatily  2 hrs away from Quetta  the roads pretty good surprisingly . A few km short of chaman city is the beautiful khojak top . Khjoak top is significant for two main reason , one the the tunnel that was built in 1891 and another reason was that this khojak top was used to be the last line of defense in the British Era . What’s interesting about this khojak top is will travel if you pay attention on the mountain you can still see the bunker that were built in the British Era. The 4 km long tunnel was built in 4 years . Another significant thing about this tunnel is that it was printed on a 5 Rs note .