Gwadar-Kashghar Motorway

[Saifullah Sani]

Gwadar-Kashghar Motorway to facilitate transit trade

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

 

[Imran Khan]

good make it ASAP man its best intreast of country

 

[Chak Bamu]

Improving law & order situation is the first pre-requisite for this project. I doubt if certain powers would tolerate such development in Pakistan. Any effort to encircle China fails if Pakistan succeeds in this project.

 

[khanboy007]

Gwadar-Kashghar Motorway to facilitate transit trade

If you look at the image carefully, note that the main industry bit of this world (China, Malaysia,Singapore etc) roll in their products with Gwadar.

to add on, these countries are clearly solid ally's of China

and as these countries deal with Gwadar, China wont be the only market, the whole world would be...because the places where things get manufactured are clearly dealing with it and the resources to the largest manufacturer in the world (China) will be dealt with using Gwadar on a less expensive scale as it cuts traveling costs.

 

[FaujHistorian]

Improving law & order situation is the first pre-requisite for this project..

na 9 mun tail ho ga
na radha naachay gi

I am sure you have heard this. Right?


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 Islamists.

I doubt if certain powers would tolerate such development in Pakistan. Any effort to encircle China fails if Pakistan succeeds in this project.

No conspiracy theories please.

We the Pakistanis are responsible for our development or our destruction.

Depends if we adopt the ideas of death or ideas of development.


peace

 

[xyxmt]

Improving law & order situation is the first pre-requisite for this project. I doubt if certain powers would tolerate such development in Pakistan. Any effort to encircle China fails if Pakistan succeeds in this project.

improve economy and law and order will fix eventually, you cant put hold on one thing and work on another

 

[KingMamba]

If you give people work they won't have time to pick up guns ergo law and order gets fixed.

 

[khuddaar]

these two great friendly nations are going to make it possible anyway

 

[VCheng]

Let's get the Gawadar-Islamabad section made first before we tackle the more difficult terrain, shall we?

 

[hari sud]

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.

 

[Pakistanisage]

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.

From Gwadar to Kashgar in two weeks ?

Would the goods be transported by Camels ?

 

[INDIC]

From Gwadar to Kashgar in two weeks ?

Would the goods be transported by Camels ?

What about winter.

 

[Kompromat]

What about winter.

We'll wear jackets and have heaters.

 

[INDIC]

We'll wear jackets and have heaters.

I was referring to heavy snowfall leading to the closure of routes during winter.

 

[Imran Khan]

I was referring to heavy snowfall leading to the closure of routes during winter.