Taftan To Zahedan | Pakistan Iran Road Trip | March 2022 | Part 3/7 | TA Travels

Taftan (Urdu: تفتان) (Balochi: تفتا) is a trunk road and railway town in Chagai District, Balochistan, Pakistan. It is one of Pakistan's border crossings with Iran. It is by either road or rail over 500 km (310 mi) from Quetta. Passenger rail service is not operational from many years. Only freight Train runs between Pakistan Iran.

It is 62 kilometres (39 mi) northeast of the thermally active dark peak or small massif also called Taftan, wholly in Iran.

At its western extreme, the border crossing point of Iran is Mirjaveh.
Border crossing timing is 9 AM to 1 PM.

It is on the N40 road. This becomes the road 84 in Iran's system, and which meanders via Kerman to a number change west of Rafsanjan.

It is served by its railway station on the line commonly described as the Quetta-Taftan Line but which, since 1940, continues to Zahedan, Iran.


Zahedan (Balochi and Persian: زاهدان, Zâhedân [zɒːheˈd̪ɒːn])[a] is a city and capital of Sistan
and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2016 census, its population was 587,730.


Zahedan is connected by rail to nearby Pakistan and is near to Afghanistan. It is about 41 km
(25 mi) south of the tripoint of the three countries and at an altitude of 1,352 m (4,436 ft)
above sea level and 1,605 km (997 mi) from the Iranian capital of Tehran.

Zahedan has a hot desert climate (Köppen climate classification BWh) with hot summers and cool
winters. Precipitation is very low, and mostly falls in winter.

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