The Kirana Hills Site[4] is an extensive rocky mountain range and a reservation of the Ministry of Defense (MoD) located in the Sargodha District in Punjab, Pakistan.[4][5][6][7]
Locally it is known as the "Black Mountains"[8] due to its brownish landscape and is expanded between the township of Rabwah and the metropolitan city, the Sargodha.[9]
The highest peak of the Kirana Hills are measured at the 1,050 ft (320 m)[2] with average peaks at highest peak is about 600 feet (180 m).[10]
^ abEast Pakistan Geographical Society 1964, p. 28.
^ abGeological Survey 1913, p. 230.
^Shaikh 2000, p. 310.
^ abBhat (retd), Col Vinayak (22 November 2017). "Pakistan is protecting its nuclear missiles by building underground fortresses". ThePrint. Retrieved 19 February 2024.
^Mahajan 2009, pp. 100–110
^Ali 2002, pp. 25–26
^Smith 2007, pp. 92–93
^DoE&ES 2012, p. 33
^Wikimaps. "Kirana Hills". Wikimaps. Retrieved 14 June 2015.
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