The Sulaiman Mountains or Kōh-e Sulaymān (Pashto: د كسي غرونه‎; Balochi/Urdu/Persian: کوه سليمان‎; "Mountains of Solomon") are a north–south extension of the southern Hindu Kush mountain system in Afghanistan and Pakistan. They rise to form the eastern edge of the Iranian Plateau and the northeastern edge of the Balochistan Plateau. They are located in the Zabul, Kandahar and Loya Paktia regions of Afghanistan, and in Pakistan they extend over the northern part of Balochistan province, and some parts of southwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab. Bordering the Sulaimans to the north are the arid highlands of the Central Hindu Kush, whose heights extend up to 3,383 metres (11,099 ft), and to the east are the plains of the Indus River valley. Together with the Kirthar Mountains in southern P