The construction of Railway started in 1891 in Baluchistan. 37 tunnels were made on a track of 1326 km and only in a time spam of 3 years. The tunnels were named on the names of few engineers, personalities and weather conditions. Among all... the tunnels, there is a tunnel named as ‘Khojak’.
The real name of ‘Khojak’ tunnel is ‘Kozak’. Kozak is word of Pushtu language which means zig zag tracks. The construction of tunnel started on 14th April, 1888. The work was completed on 1891. Along with many capable teams of Engineers there were also many masons from local areas who worked on the construction sites. The fuels for machines were carried through camels at a place named as Huntun about 40 miles from the construction site.
The fuel from Huntun was brought to site through train. The Khojak or Kozak tunnel of Balochistan was in start the world’s 4th largest railway tunnel. Now its the world’s 8th largest railway tunnel. Its length is 3.92 km. The tunnel is located at 17 miles from chaman between chaman and sheela bagh. Due to its importance, Government of Pakistan had published the tunnel picture on a 5 rupee note. The leading person on the construction of the tunnel was Gen. Thomas . The tunnel is beautiful due to the scenes around it. There are many springs and streams on the tunnel too.
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