The M8 will have 4-lanes and a total length of 892 km. Initially, 2-lanes will be constructed after the completion of which another 2-lane will be added, thus making a total of 4-lanes.
The M8 will start from Ratodero in Sindh Province and enter Balochistan Province passing near the towns of Khuzdar, Awaran, Hoshab, Turbat before joining the Makran Coastal Highway just east of the port city of Gwadar.
The Siachen glacier is the highest battleground on earth, where India and Pakistan have fought intermittently since April 13, and 1984.It is located in Baltistan (Kashmir).
Pakistan lies of the North tropic zone of Cancer.
Soan and Haro are the famous rivers of Potwar platue.
Ghulam Muhammad Barrage is also called Kotri Barrage.
The extinct volcano ―Koh-i-Sultan‖ in Baluchistan contains the deposits of Sulphur.
The first railway track was established between Karachi and Kotri.
Jehlum and Chenab rivers meet at Trimmu.
The 80 percentage of Muslims in Jammu and Kashmir.
Indus River is a major river which flows through Pakistan. It also has courses throughwestern Tibet (in China) and Northern India. Originating in the Tibetan plateau in the vicinity of Lake Mansarovar, the river runs a course through the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir, Gilgit, Baltistan and flows through Pakistan in a southerly direction along the entire length of Pakistan to merge into the Arabian Sea near the port city of Karachi in
Sindh. The total length of the river is 2900 km. It is Pakistan’s longest river and also called ―the father of rivers‖.
Ningrahar, Pakita and Ghazni provinces of Afghanistan shares border with Pakistan.
Khar is a famous town of Bajour.
The Margalla Hills — also called the Margalla Mountain Range, is a hill range part of the lesser Himalayas located north of Islamabad, Pakistan.
Hungol is the largest river of Balochistan.
Simly Dam is an 80m high earthen embankment dam on the Soan River, 30 km east of Islamabad and Rawalpindi.
Kalabagh iron deposits are largest in Pakistan with an estimated reserve of 309 m tons.
The Hasni tribe is settled in Western Balochistan.
Rechna and Bari Doabs are considered thickly populated region.
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