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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 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 KKH spans the 887 kilometers between the China-Pakistan border and the town of Burhan, near Hasan Abdal.
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 ...
The book is divided into ten chapters that discuss and evaluate the anticipated economic and geopolitical effects on the region. In addition, it investigates the role of CPEC in the future regional cooperation and integration of subnational regions such as Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (including the Federally Administered Tribal Areas), and Gilgit-Baltistan.
The 285-kilometre-long (177 mi) motorway is a part of the Western Alignment of the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor, [2] [3] and offers high speed road connections between the Islamabad-Rawalpindi metropolitan area, and the southern parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province around Dera Ismail Khan.
This is a list of countries (or regions) by total road network size, both paved and unpaved. Also included is additional data on the length of each country or region's controlled-access highway network (also known as a motorway, expressway, freeway, etc.), designed for high vehicular traffic.
Road Province Opened Purpose Status 1 Taftan [12] Mirjaveh: N-40 - Road 84: Balochistan-Sistan Balochistan: Miscellaneous Operational 2 Gabd [13] Chabahar (Rimdan) N-10 - Bahukalat Protected Area Road 20.12.2020 Miscellaneous Operational 3 Mand [14] Pishin: Turbat - Road 92: 21.04.2021 Trade Operational 4 Chadgi Kuhak: Pishin-Kurumb road Trade ...
The modern border dates from the period of the British Raj when Britain controlled India, which then included what is now Pakistan. In 1899, the British, via its envoy to China Sir Claude MacDonald, proposed what became known as the MacDonald Line to the Chinese government, however the Chinese never responded to the proposal and thus this border was never formalised.