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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 158 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BOLAN PASS , an important pass on the Baluch frontier, connecting See also:

Jacobabad and See also:Sibi with See also:Quetta, which has always occupied an.important See also:place in the See also:history of See also:British See also:campaigns in See also:Afghanistan. Since the treaty of See also:Gandamak, which was signed at the See also:close of the first phase of the Afghan See also:War in 1879, the Bolan route has been brought directly under British See also:control, and it was selected for the first See also:alignment of the See also:Sind-Pishin railway from the plains to the See also:plateau. From Sibi the See also:line runs See also:south-See also:west, skirting the hills to Rindli, and originally followed the course of the Bolan stream to its See also:head on the plateau. The destructive See also:action of floods, however, led to the See also:abandonment of this alignment, and the railway now follows the Mashkaf valley (which debouches into the plains close to Sibi), and is carried from near the head of the Mashkaf to a junction with the Bolan at See also:Mach. An alternative route from Sibi to Quetta was found in the Harnai valley to the N.E. of Sibi, the line starting in exactly the opposite direction to that of the Bolan and entering the hills at Nari. The Harnai route, although longer, is the one adopted for all See also:ordinary See also:traffic, the Bolan See also:loop being reserved for emergencies. At the Khundilani See also:gorge of the Bolan route See also:conglomerate cliffs enclose the valley rising to a height of Boo ft., and at See also:Sir-i-Bolan the passage between the See also:limestone rocks hardly admits of three persons See also:riding abreast. The temperature of the pass in summer is very high, whereas in See also:winter, near its head, the See also:cold is extreme, and the See also:ice-cold See also:wind rushing down the narrow outlet becomes destructive to See also:life. Since 1877, when the Quetta agency was founded, the freedom of the pass from plundering bands of Baluch marauders (chiefly Marris) has been secured, and it is now as safe as any pass in See also:Scotland. (T. H.

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