Islamabad: Pakistan has struck gold, literally as massive reserves and deposits of the precious yellow metal have been discovered along the Indus River in Pakistan Punjab’s Attock region.

Indus river, one of oldest and longest rivers ... The massive gold reserve has been found by Pakistan in Punjab province. The Geological Survey of Pakistan (GSP) has identified around 32.6 ...

flowing through Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and Sindh (near Karachi) before joining the Arabian Sea. When India and Pakistan were partitioned in 1947, the Indus River played a life-sustaining role ...

The river itself has manifold ecosystems, from the high Himalayas to the marshy Indus delta in southern Pakistan ... is much greater — farmers in Punjab and Haryana, for instance, grow crops ...