Here is what the NGA (NIMA) GEONames data base reports on that matter.
Searching: All geographic features ending with "Narai" in FATA, Pakistan:
Found: 297 hits, 286 were identified as being passes.
Searching: All geographic features ending with "Algad" in FATA, Pakistan:
Found: 612 hits, 610 were identified as being either streams or intermittent streams (3/4ths intermittent).
--Boot Hill
Very, very nice.
It's hard to consider a "pass" as being anything other than a route "to" one place, "from" another place. I can't see any ridge being called a "pass" for any reason other than the fact that human beings use it to pass from one side to the other. Not mountain goats, not marmots, not even bears...human beings.
This helps considerably.
Question....can you search the NGA database for passes, even if they do not end in "Narai"? Not asking you to do it, just wanting to know if a search can be run that way.
Big thanks.