Cholistan

Abbas/Xinhua/Zumapress.com Pakistani troops jumped from a vehicle during a 10-day winter military exercise in Cholistan desert near the Pakistan-India border on Friday.

Asia in Pictures 2011

Skirting the edge of the Cholistan Desert, crossing into Pakistan, on the fourth night they came to a Hindu village abandoned by all but a few old women.

Excerpt: In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin 2009

Chaudhry et al. reported eleven reptile species from ten genera from the Cholistan desert in the western Thar.

Thar desert 2008

These include several reserves that are quite large, with one (Cholistan) exceeding 20,000 km2, and two (Nara Desert, Rann of Kutch) being over 5,000 km2.

Thar desert 2008

Biodiversity in Cholistan desert, Punjab, Pakistan.

Thar desert 2008

At its height, the Indus civilization, named for the river that enriched the area's farm and grazing lands, extended from the lapis mines in mountainous northern Afghanistan to the coast of the Arabian Sea, from the highland pastures of Baluchistan to the mineral-rich deserts of Cholistan and Thar.

Birth of a Civilization 1998

Pakistan launched its biggest ever army exercise on Saturday, invloving 50,000 soldiers, to train them to prepare for the threat of a conventional war with India in the Cholistan desert along the country's eastern border.

Signs of the Times 2010

A heavy anti-tank battalion of Blue Land demonstrated the dispersal techniques in the Cholistan desert.

Signs of the Times 2010

A heavy anti-tank battalion of Blue Land demonstrated the dispersal techniques in the Cholistan desert.

Signs of the Times 2010

Pakistan launched its biggest ever army exercise on Saturday, invloving 50,000 soldiers, to train them to prepare for the threat of a conventional war with India in the Cholistan desert along the country's eastern border.

Signs of the Times 2010