Gwadar-Kashghar Motorway

[Capt.Popeye]

This video is only a few weeks old, and shows a modern day Nissan UD truck I bleeive.

Good news if thats true. I used to feel amazed to see the venerable 1960 Bedfords (presumably with their Perkins engines) colorfully painted and festooned; in Karachi towards the end of the 1990s. Are they still around?
Only one other country that I saw them; in Malta, but as Passenger Coaches (buses).

 

[My-Analogous]

Our interior minster says he is Muslim first and Pakistani second. Then how could we be ever bring down the law and order situation created by Islamist.


peace

First do some research and than comments and you have no right to insult Muslims and our Prophet.

 

[VCheng]

Good news if thats true. I used to feel amazed to see the venerable 1960 Bedfords (presumably with their Perkins engines) colorfully painted and festooned; in Karachi towards the end of the 1990s. Are they still around?
Only one other country that I saw them; in Malta, but as Passenger Coaches (buses).

The Bedford Rocket is made locally and has a long history. Newer versions have longer wheelbases and double rear axles too.

 

[Capt.Popeye]

The Bedford Rocket is made locally and has a long history. Newer versions have longer wheelbases and double rear axles too.

Yes; they were made in India too. By HM in Calcutta which makes the Most Venerable "Ambassador". There were two kinds the FC version that had the Cab on the engine and the SFC which had the engine Compt. in front. Both used the Perkins P-6 engines that mere made by the Simpsons in Madras. The brand died in the early 1970s along with another Marque, the Dodge and Fargo Trucks.

 

[Khaqan Humayun]

Gwadar-Kashghar Motorway to facilitate transit trade too Good Pakistan Must Make other Deep sea ports as well and invite Russia German Italy Franc we can Make 5 or 6 more ports and invite all countries to invest
this will also solve the problems because Karachi is not enough for future policy we must make other ports and Cites.

ISLAMABAD - The tentative alignment for the Gwadar-Kashghar Motorway has been cleared subject to feasibility studies containing commercial, technical and hydraulic aspects of the project.
An official of the Communications Ministry informed APP on Sunday that the project would facilitate transit trade in the country. It would have economic zones en-route and allow reaping of full benefits of development inluding economic and social uplift and creation of jobs in the country. He said the corridor-from Kashgar to Khunjerab and Gwadar-would not merely a transportation link, but it would be also energy and telecommunication corridor.
This project will also be a great help in regional connectivities, he said and added that passing primarily through hinterland, it was expected to affect fast track development of backward areas.
He said Pakistan would establish industrial parks and economic zones along the proposed Kashghar-Gwadar trade corridor that would connect China’s western autonomous regions with Balochistan.As per the alignment Pak-China Motorway, this trade corridor will be around 2,000km long within the territory of Pakistan, crisscrossing snow-capped mountains, narrow valleys, lush green fields, sand dunes and dry hills.
He said that this new trade corridor would provide Chinese traders a link to deliver their goods to the international markets through the Gwadar Port. If compared with the Chinese ports, this was the shortest possible route to the western provinces of China, the official added.

Gwadar-Kashghar Motorway to facilitate transit trade

too Good Pakistan Must Make other Deep sea ports as well and invite Russia German Italy Franc we can Make 5 or 6 more ports and invite all countries to invest
this will also solve the problems because Karachi is not enough for future policy we must make other ports and Cites.

 

[monitor12345]

If Pakistan government does not get any transit fees for transport of Chinese goods, then Gwadar to Kashgar Economic Corridor is a waste for Pakistan. Like Pakistan allowed transport of Nato Containers from Karachi to Chaman ( or Khyber Pass ) Corridor, without charging any transit fees from US, Pakistan got nothing for allowing the transport of Nato Containers. If Pakistan allows China also, in the name of all-weather friendship, to transport its goods from Gwadar to Kashgar Economic Corridor, without taking any transit fees, Gwadar to Kashgar Economic Corridor will be a waste.

 

[JOEY TRIBIANI]

indians jal rahay .. .. yahi in k kalay honay ka raaz ha

 

[Fracker]

Gawader - Kashgar highway is feasible except where it has to cross the mountain. The existing road can be expanded.

There is only one issue - there are not enough goods to travel on this road. China's mainland where bulk of the population is much farther east. This road is of no value to them. It is much easier and cheaper to go via Singapore get to Shanghai in 14 days then spend two weeks getting to Kashgar from Gawadar and then another two weeks getting to Shanghai or Peking etc.

This road connection is a bad idea economically also.

Lol, even gawadar-kashghar is good for east China. Check distance from kashgar to beijing. Gwadar main function is to link middle east with china. And earn transit trade which can go for more than 20 billion USD.

2nd karakurram highway is already there. Fsd-multan is in progress, so is sukkar gwadar. So forget it will take some special effort. But result is huge. It will give Pakistan transit revenue but also a strategic payetnership with china.

It should finish ASAP

 

[Capt.Popeye]

indians jal rahay .. .. yahi in k kalay honay ka raaz ha

Arey tum to badey aqalmand ho........Kya soch hai; mashallah.

 

[Bilal.]

My point is that even the existing roadwork is in bad shape, let alone dreaming of mega-projects like this.

The plan is to build new motorway, after all the GT road is full of potholes but that did not stop the motorway to be constructed. I honestly dont understand the unnecessary doom and gloom.

 

[VCheng]

The plan is to build new motorway, after all the GT road is full of potholes but that did not stop the motorway to be constructed. I honestly dont understand the unnecessary doom and gloom.

A motorway costs approximately a million dollars per mile. Say, if Pakistan somehow manages this at one fourth of this cost, where is this money coming from?

 

[Bilal.]

A motorway costs approximately a million dollars per mile. Say, if Pakistan somehow manages this at one fourth of this cost, where is this money coming from?

The work is underway to complete the work till multan, so Islamabad to multan can be taken out of the equation, how many miles are we talking about for the remainder of the corridor? Probably, plus/minus a thousand, so we cant finance a billion dollars over next several years you think, specially, when China itself has interest in the project?

And if hypothetically it's one fourth the cost as you said, it would be a paltry 250 mils approx.

 

[VCheng]

The work is underway to complete the work till multan, so Islamabad to multan can be taken out of the equation, how many miles are we talking about for the remainder of the corridor? Probably, plus/minus a thousand, so we cant finance a billion dollars over next several years you think, specially, when China itself has interest in the project?

Have you looked at Pakistan's financial situation lately?

 

[Bilal.]

Have you looked at Pakistan's financial situation lately?

Not as bad as you believe it to be.

 

[VCheng]

Not as bad as you believe it to be.

Finances are determined by cold hard facts, not by beliefs or emotions.