The Khulm River originates in the Kara-Kotal pass and flows through gorges and then emerges into a wide valley near the Tashkurgan town.

[5] At the junction of the Bamian and Badakhshan routes, the Khulm River emerges from the mountains by the town of Kholm.

[3] In 1896, Keane wrote of the countryside's desert encroachment, causing the Khulm River as it passes from the Kara-koh hills to no longer reach the Oxus.

[7] The banks of the Khulm River are rich agricultural areas with rolling green hills at the side of the valleys it passes through.

[8] The project has created some 6,900 days of employment for local workers combined and generating an income of US$99,362 for the labourers who were trained in gabion weaving to be implemented along the river banks.