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Khor Kalmat Kalmat Hor or Kalmat Khor is a lagoon located along the Makran coast of Balochistan, Pakistan. The Basol River drains into the Kalmat Hor lagoon. In recent times, it has gained attention for being the locality where the Pakistan Navy plans to build ...
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Balochistan Balochistan ( ; bal, بلۏچستان; also romanised as Baluchistan and Baluchestan) is a historical region in Western and South Asia, located in the Iranian plateau's far southeast and bordering the Indian Plate and the Arabian Sea coastline. ...
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Khor Kalmat Kalmat Hor or Kalmat Khor is a lagoon located along the Makran coast of Balochistan, Pakistan. The Basol River drains into the Kalmat Hor lagoon. In recent times, it has gained attention for being the locality where the Pakistan Navy plans to build ...
is a
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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, ...
coast of Balochistan. The
Basol River Basol River () is a river that flows southward in the Gwadar District of Balochistan Province, in southwestern Pakistan. The Basol River drains a desert area of the Makran region, with its river mouth at Khor Kalmat lagoon on the Gulf of Oman, of ...
drains into the Khor Kalmat lagoon. The geographical coordinates of Khor Kalmat are N 25° 24' 32 E 64° 4' 37.


See also

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Jinnah Naval Base Jinnah Naval Base ( ur, ) is a strategic naval base of the Pakistan Navy located at Ormara, Balochistan, Pakistan. It is named after Pakistan's founder, Mohammad Ali Jinnah. It is Pakistan's second largest naval base. Location Jinnah Naval Base ...
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PNS Ahsan The PNS Ahsan ( ur, ) is a Military base, naval base located in Makran, Balochistan Province. The base is named after legendary naval intelligence officer and former Chief of Naval Staff (Pakistan), Chief of Naval Staff Vice-Admiral Syed Moham ...
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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 Port city, Coastal city of Pasni of Balochistan. It is one of the two active ...
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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 the ...
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PNS Qasim The PNS Qasim (also known as Marines Base Qasim) is a major marines base that serves as the headquarter of the Pakistan Marines for their administrative, operational and logistic requirements. PNS Qasim, the garrison of Pakistan Marines, is serve ...
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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 The PNS Qasim (also known as Marines Base Qasim) is a major marines base that serves as the headquarte ...
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Karachi Shipyard The Karachi Shipyard & Engineering Works Limited (KS&EW) ( ur, ) is a Pakistani state-owned defense contractor and Military Inc., military corporation situated in the West Wharf Industrial Area, West Wharf in Karachi, Sindh in Pakistan. The KS ...


References

Pakistan Navy bases Gwadar District Military installations in Balochistan, Pakistan {{Pakistan-geo-stub