Ras Koh Hills (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Ras Koh (Ras means way or gate and Koh means mountain; Ras Koh literally, "gate of the mountains," or "foothill") is located in Chagai District, Balochistan, Pakistan. Pakistan's first nuclear tests were performed under the 185 metre granite mountain in 1998 May 28 under the leadership of then-PAEC chairman dr. Ishfaq Ahmad. The history of Ras Koh Hills drives back to early of 1970s when Pakistan, under the stewardship of then-Prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, concentrated to developed the atomic weapons research program. In the early 1970s, Pakistan Army's 1-Star Brigadier General Muhammad Sarfraz, the Military administrator of 158th Mountaineering Brigade, 56th Mountain Division of V Corps, posted in Chagai District, received a telegram transmission from the Pakistan Army General Headquarters (GHQ), Rawalpindi.