Kalmat Naval Base is a proposed
naval base
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of the
Pakistan Navy
ur, ہمارے لیے اللّٰہ کافی ہے اور وہ بہترین کارساز ہے۔ English: Allah is Sufficient for us - and what an excellent (reliable) Trustee (of affairs) is He!(''Qur'an, 3:173'')
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at
Khor Kalmat,
Balochistan
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,
Pakistan
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Another naval base in Balochistan?
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Location
Khor Kalmat is a lagoon
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located on the Makran
Makran ( fa, مكران), mentioned in some sources as Mecran and Mokrān, is the coastal region of Baluchistan. It is a semi-desert coastal strip in Balochistan, in Pakistan and Iran, along the coast of the Gulf of Oman. It extends westwards, f ...
coast of Balochistan. The Basol River drains into the Khor Kalmat lagoon. The geographical coordinates of Khor Kalmat are N 25° 24' 32 E 64° 4' 37.
See also
* Jinnah Naval Base
* PNS Ahsan
The PNS Ahsan ( ur, ) is a naval base located in Makran, Balochistan Province. The base is named after legendary naval intelligence officer and former Chief of Naval Staff Vice-Admiral Syed Mohammad Ahsan. The base is currently controlled by ...
* PNS Makran
Pakistan Naval Station Makran, known as PNS Makran ( ur, ) formerly known as Coastal Naval Air Station, Pasni, is a Naval air station and a military airport located in Coastal city of Pasni of Balochistan. It is one of the two active Naval Air ...
* PNS Mehran
The PNS Mehran is the naval station and the premier air–to-air/ air–to–ground training naval air station located in the joint vicinity of the Faisal Air Force Base (Faisal AFB) in Karachi, Sindh, in Pakistan. Established in 1975 with th ...
* PNS Qasim
* Karachi Naval Dockyard
The Karachi Naval Dockyard, also refers as PN Dockyard, is a naval base located adjacent to the commercial Karachi Shipyard and the PNS Qasim. It is also the only submarine construction base for the Pakistan Navy.
Footnotes
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* Karachi Shipyard
The Karachi Shipyard & Engineering Works Limited (KS&EW) ( ur, ) is a Pakistani state-owned defense contractor and military corporation situated in the West Wharf in Karachi, Sindh in Pakistan.
The KSEW Ltd. is the oldest and the only shipya ...
References
Pakistan Navy bases
Gwadar District
Military installations in Balochistan, Pakistan
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