Chagai-I is the code name of five simultaneous underground nuclear tests conducted by Pakistan at 15:15 hrs PKT on 28 May 1998. The tests were performed at Ras Koh Hills in the Chagai District of Balochistan Province.
Chagai-I
PAEC's scientists chose sites at the high-altitude granite mountain ranges with extreme hot weather.
The PAEC weapon testing team at Koh Kambaran, with team leader Samar Mubarakmand (right of the man in the blue beret), Tariq Salija, Irfan Burney, and Tasneem Shah. The better known A. Q. Khan of Kahuta Research Laboratories (KRL) is left of the man in the blue beret (who may be General Zulfikar Ali).
Commemorative monument at the Faizabad Interchange in Islamabad
The Ras Koh Range is a granite mountain range and a reservation of the Ministry of Defense located between the districts of Chagai and Kharan of Balochistan in Pakistan.
Aerial picture of Ras Koh Range provided by ISS Mission in 2014.
The Ras Koh Range provided by the NASA as mountain ranges of Pakistan series.