Balochistan Mountain

Balochistan, the land of beauty enriched with breath-taking waterfalls, spectacular deep valleys and mouth-watering fruit trees is also famous for its twisted mountains covering whole of the province. Southern Balochistan is a vast wilderness of mountain ranges, of which the Central Brahui Range is the backbone. The easternmost Kirthar Range is backed by the Pab Range in the west. Other important ranges of southern Balochistan are the Central Makran Range and the Makran Coast Range, whose steep face to the south divides the coastal plain from the rest of the plateau. The Makran coastal track mostly comprises level mud flats surrounded by sandstone ridges. The isolation of the arid plain has been broken by an ongoing development project at Gwadar, which is linked with Karachi via an improved road transport system. The vast tableland of Balochistan contains a great variety of physical features. In the northeast, a basin centred on the towns of Zhob and Loralai forms a trellis-patterned lobe that is surrounded on all sides by mountain ranges. To the east and southeast is the Sulaiman Range , which joins the Central Brahui range near the provincial capital, Quetta. To the north and northwest of Balochistan is the Toba Kakar Range (which farther west becomes the Khwaja Amran Range). The hilly terrain becomes less severe south-westward in the form of Ras Koh Range. The small Quetta basin is surrounded on all sides by mountains. The whole area appears to form a node of high ranges. West of the Ras Koh Range, the general landform of northwestern Balochistan is a series of low-lying plateaus divided by hills. In the north the Chaghai Hills border a region of true desert, consisting of inland drainage.