Since 2008 railway service has come under attack by the Balochs, especially in the Bolan Pass area resulting in a bomb blast on the railway tracks and firing on trains.

Canadian journalist Kim Bolan has written extensively on Sikh extremism.

Bassist Rachel Bolan has made known his mixed feelings about Subhuman Race.

Bolan has another side project called The Quazimotors with Skid Row drummer Rob Hammersmith, Jonathan Callicutt and Evil Jim Wright ( guitarist for Spectremen, BigFoot, Road Hawgs ).

The band was managed by Simon Napier-Bell who has also managed The Yardbirds, Marc Bolan, London and Wham !.

PTV has various channels transmitting throughout the world including PTV National, PTV World, PTV 2, PTV Global, PTV Bolan etc.

Since then, Bongos frontman Richard Barone has recorded several other Bolan compositions (" The Visit ," " Ballrooms of Mars "), worked with T. Rex producer Tony Visconti for his current solo album, Glow ( 2010, Bar / None Records ) that includes a remake of Bolan's " Girl " from Electric Warrior, and has himself produced tracks for Bolan's son Rolan.

In every decade since his death, a Bolan greatest hits compilation has placed in the top 20 UK albums and periodic boosts in sales have come via cover versions from artists inspired by Bolan, including Morrissey and Siouxsie and the Banshees.

Bolan is still cited by many guitar-centric bands as a huge influence ( Joy Division / New Order's Bernard Sumner has said that the first single he owned was " Ride a White Swan ".

Mack Bolan, alias The Executioner, is a fictional character who has been serialized in over six hundred novels with sales of more than 200 million, according to Amazon. com.

Bolan has been in love only twice.

No one has ever claimed Bolan does not like women.

The Brigadier and AutoMag have since been supplanted by the current favorites, the Beretta 93R and. 44 Magnum Desert Eagle, though Bolan has demonstrated facility with any pistol or rifle he comes across.

Since 1980, Harlequin has produced new novels and the writer's name is mentioned on the copyright page as a provider of " a contribution " to the work, pushing the number of Mack Bolan novels into the hundreds ; all of them bear the byline, Don Pendleton's Mack Bolan.

He has written for the following series: The Trailsman, Mack Bolan, Endworld, Blade, Wilderness, White Apache, Davy Crockett, Omega Sub and The Hardy Boys.

One of LAPD's most promising detectives, Carl Lyons has known Mack Bolan since the beginning of his Mafia war.

To this day, the unit remains the only one of the two Stony Man action teams that has had any history with Mack Bolan.

But he is best known as manager, and at different times has managed artists as diverse as The Yardbirds, John's Children, Marc Bolan, Japan, London, Asia, Ultravox, Boney M, Sinitta, Wham !, Blue Mercedes, Alsou and Candi Staton.

Both Morrissey and Johnny Marr are Marc Bolan fans, and Marr has admitted in an interview that the melody for a previous Smiths single, " Panic ", was copied from " Metal Guru ".

He has written several Mack Bolan novels, an action-adventure series that appears under the pseudonym of Don Pendleton.

an old building architecture of Shikarpur. Shikarpur has always been an important place as commanding the trade route through the Bolan Pass, and its merchants have dealings with many towns in Central Asia.

American band Elysian Fields ' cover of " Life's a Gas " appeared on the compilation album Great Jewish Music: Marc Bolan in 1998.

In 1985, Duran Duran splinter band Power Station, with Robert Palmer as vocalist, took a version of " Get It On " into the UK Top 40 and to US # 6, the first cover of a Bolan song to enter the charts since his death.

The name of this band was inspired by T. Rex and its vocalist Marc Bolan.

The name of this band was inspired by T. Rex and its vocalist Marc Bolan.

Compared with the band's debut EP, Shine, vocalist Andrew Wood's vocal stylings are more mature, drawing heavily upon similar techniques of guitarist and singer Marc Bolan.

Marc Bolan & T. Rex recorded a live album at the Gliderdrome named ' Live at the Boston Gliderdrome ' in 1972 which was released on CD in 2001.

The city lies on the Bolan Pass route which was once the only gateway to and from South Asia.

1970s glam rock singer Marc Bolan and actor Ray Winstone were born in Hackney Hospital, on Homerton High Street.

* Marc Bolan, singer and leader of the band T. Rex lived at 6 Schubert Road, Putney and died in a car crash in Queens Ride, Barnes on the border of Putney

* Marc Bolan ( born, Mark Feld ), musician – lived on Stoke Newington Common until age 15.

Jeff Beck, Duff McKagan, Jack Rose, Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Cub Koda, Marc Bolan, Neil Young and Bob Dylan have all cited Wray as an influence ; Dylan's song " Sign Language ", which he sang with Eric Clapton on Clapton's No Reason to Cry album, mentions Link Wray.

This fortuitous encounter afforded Bolan a lifeline to the heart of show-business, as Warren saw Toby Tyler's potential whilst the latter spent hours sitting cross-legged on Warren's floor playing his acoustic guitar.

A series of photographs was to be commissioned with photographer Michael McGrath, who later recalls that Bolan " left no impression " on him.

According to Danny Baker speaking on QI Series G, episode 15 on BBC television, Bolan is a contraction of Bob Dylan.

Bolan, by now married to his girlfriend June Child ( a former secretary to the manager of another of his heroes, Syd Barrett ), bought a vintage Gibson Les Paul guitar ( featured on the cover of the album T. Rex ), wrote and recorded " Ride a White Swan " which was dominated by a rolling hand-clapping back-beat, Bolan's electric guitar and Finn's percussion, and shortened the group's name to T. Rex.

Bolan took to wearing top hats and feather boas on stage as well as putting drops of glitter on each of his cheekbones.

Stories are conflicting about his inspiration for this — some say it was introduced by his personal assistant, Chelita Secunda, although Bolan told John Pidgeon in a 1974 interview on Radio 1 that he noticed the glitter on his wife's dressing table prior to a photo session and casually daubed some on his face there and then.

The glam era also saw the rise of Bolan's friend David Bowie, whom Bolan had come to know in the underground days ( Bolan had played guitar on Bowie's 1970 single " Prettiest Star ").

In 1973, Bolan played twin lead guitar alongside his friend Jeff Lynne on the Electric Light Orchestra songs " Ma-Ma-Ma Belle " and " Dreaming of 4000 " ( originally uncredited ) from On the Third Day, as well as on " Everyone's Born To Die ", which was not released at the time but appears as a bonus track on the 2006 remaster.

In 1972, Bolan achieved two more British number ones with " Telegram Sam " and " Metal Guru " ( the latter of which stopped Elton John getting to the top with " Rocket Man ") and two more number twos in " Children Of The Revolution " and " Solid Gold Easy Action ".

Bolan died on 16 September 1977, two weeks before his 30th birthday.

Bolan enlisted in the Army at age 18 and served two tours of duty in Vietnam as a Green Beret, even though newer novels don't make any reference to this as it makes him seem too old.

In addition to contributing to many of John Zorn's produced compilation records, including one of Marc Bolan and the first track on the Serge Gainsbourg tribute, Charles and Bloedow also released two complete albums of Sephardic songs on Zorn's Tzadik label, the first being " La Mar Enfortuna " and the most recent " Convivencia ".

The two main gateways on the North West Frontier are the Khyber and Bolan Passes.