New Delhi, March 3 -- Pakistan has discovered vast gold reserves in the Indus River, which is estimated to be worth around Rs.80,000 crore, according to a Times Now report on Monday, March 3.

The report said that the nation has found the gold reserves through a government-commissioned survey in the district of Attock in the Punjab province. These gold reserves have sparked extraction plans, which may serve as a lifeline for the cash-strapped country.

The mining project will be headed by the state-owned National Engineering Services Pakistan (NESPAK) and the Mines and Minerals Department Punjab, and is expected to be major milestone for the nation's mining industry, as per the report.

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