The terrain
of the Ziarat district is comprised mostly of mountains along with beautiful valleys.
Ziarat contain many subsidiary mountain
ranges.
Following
are the names of those Mountain ranges.
1. Batsargi
Mountain range
2. Bibai Mountain
range
3. Chappar Mountain
Range
4. Jdnaksar Mountain Range
5. Khusnob Mountain
range
6. Nishpa Mountain
range
7. Pil mountain
range
8. Piin Mountain
range
9. ` Surghar Mountain
range
10. Zharghat Mountain range
Batsargi
Mountain range
The Batsargi
range is (10.000 feet)
Bibai Mountain range
Bibai range which runs eastward from Ahmadiin
and the highest peak of which is 9,934 feet.
Chappar Mountain Range
The Chappar,
a bare range of limestone hills lying Aspects, to the west of Khalifat and to
the south of Mangi. The famous Chappar Rift, through which the railway had run,
is situated near the western extremity of the Khalifat range, and is an
extremely narrow gorge about two and a half miles in length with perpendicular
sides several hundred feet in height
Jdnaksar Mountain range
The Jdnaksar
range (9,670 feet) to the north of the Zandra
Khusnob Mountain range
The Khusnob
ountain range is range (9,950 feet), which ends in the Shahiddn slopes above
Zidrat-i-Shahiddn, so called because three Pdn^zai children were martyred there
by the Marris.
Nishpa Mountain range
This range
extends from Wangi Tangi to Warn Tangi and forms the boundary between the Pui
valley and Harnai, and the road from Ziarat to Sanjdwi (The Nishpa range with
the peaks of Tezarni, Shin shobina (10,654 '^et), Sangur, Khazobai and Loeghar
Smallan) via Chaut^r passes along the foot of its northern slopes.
Pil mountain range
The Pil
(9,730 feet) which lies to the south of the Kahdn* valley, and is cleft by the
Mangi Tangi or Pil Rift which runs down from Kahdn to Mangi. The name is
derived from the Persian word elephant, the mountain being supposed to resemble
the shape of the head and back of that animal.
Piin Mountain range
A succession
of peaks the highest of which are
Dongar Sar,
Khun Sar and Pdnghar intervene between this point and the Marri border. The
Pdnghar hill is the highest peak of the Piin range which encloses the Harnai
valley on the north. This range is divid»^d from the mass of hills on the west
by the Mehrdb Tangi, along which runs the main road from Harnai to Loralai.
Surghar Mountain range
The Surghar
range (10,064 feet).
Zharghat Mountain range
Tlie
Zharghat range which ends in Kato ( 10,247 feet), on the northern slopes of
which the station of Zidrat is situated.
