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Aerial View of The Karakoram Highway. The Karakoram Highway (Urdu: شاہراہ قراقرم, Śāhirāh-i Qarāquram), also known as the KKH, National Highway 35 (Urdu: قومی شاہراہ ۳۵), N-35, and the China–Pakistan Friendship Highway, is a 1,300 km (810 mi) national highway which extends from Hasan Abdal in the Punjab province of Pakistan to the Khunjerab Pass in Gilgit ...
Construction works on the China-Pakistan Friendship Tunnels can be traced to 2013, when China began construction on a 24-kilometre (15 mi) bypass of Attabad Lake with a combination of 5 km worth of tunnels, two large bridges, and 78 small bridges to bypass the lake which had been formed after a 2010 earthquake triggered massive landslides. The ...
Chaudhuri, Rudra. "The Making of an ‘All Weather Friendship' Pakistan, China and the History of a Border Agreement: 1949–1963." International history review 40, no. 1 (2018), 41–64. Choudhury, G.W. India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and the major powers: politics of a divided subcontinent (1975), by a Pakistani scholar.
Highlighted in blue is the 175-kilometer road between Gilgit and Skardu, which is to be upgraded to a 4-lane highway. China and Pakistan already conduct trade via the Karakoram Highway. The CPEC projects involve reconstruction and upgrades to National Highway 35 (N-35), which forms the Pakistani section of the Karakoram Highway (KKH).
The Western Alignment roadway network begins at the Brahma Bahtar Interchange on the M1 Motorway near the towns of Burhan and Hasan Abdal in northern Punjab province. [3] The newly reconstructed Karakoram Highway connects to the Western Alignment at Burhan, near where the new 285-mile-long (285 mi) controlled-access Brahma Bahtar-Yarik Motorway will commence. [4]
China-Pakistan Friendship Highway (Chinese 中巴友誼公路), better known as the Karakoram Highway; China-Vietnam Friendship Highway (Chinese 中越友谊公路) Mittraphap Road (Thailand Route 2), literally "Friendship Road" Khmer-American Friendship Highway (National highway 4), Cambodia; Philippine-Japan Friendship Highway, Philippines
Raikot Bridge is a road bridge situated on the Karakoram Highway, spanning the River Indus. It is the gateway to Nanga Parbat base camp, in Diamer District, Gilgit Baltistan, Pakistan. [1] [2] From there, the Highway continues all the way up to Khunjerab Pass and into China.
It starts from Ghursay saitang city to Yarqand in China. It is the main trade route between Khaplu, Ladakh, Kharmang to Yarqand, China. Kilik Pass; Mintaka Pass; Khunjerab Pass is the highest paved international border crossing at 4,693 m (15,397 ft). It serves the China-Pakistan Friendship Highway, the "8th world wonder". [30] Shimshal Pass ...