Pak-China Rail Link News

[ice_man]

this will happen but atleast not for another 20 years!! the project is supposed to last 15 years once construction begins!!

and no time soon will we see construction starting!!

GAWADAR PORT, KALABAGH DAM & RAIL SYSTEM!!! ALL JUST DISTANT DREAMS OF PAKISTANIS! due to corrupt leaders!

 

[alibaz]

As the United States steps up the effort to isolate Tehran, China is penetrating deeper into the Iranian plateau. This weekend, Beijing will unveil plans to build a new rail corridor that will eventually link China to the Mediterranean Sea through Central Asia, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran.

Liu Zhijun, China’s railway minister, is landing in Iran on Sunday to clinch an agreement on one important segment of this new Silk Road between the Far East and the Mediterranean, according to news reports from Beijing and Tehran.

Liu is expected to sign an agreement with Iranian transport minister, Hamid Behbahani, on building a rail line between Tehran and Khosravi on the border with Iraq.

Like the British Raj and the Russian empire that extended their railways into remote inner Asian frontiers more than a century ago as part of the Great Game, China wants to push transport corridors into all corners of Eurasia.

indianexpress.com/news/china-goes-beyond-pak-will-build-rail-line-to-iran/678779/]China goes beyond Pak, will build rail line to Iran

China goes beyond Pak, will build rail line to Iran

 

[Asian.Century]

The 1,800-km China-Pakistan railway is planned to also pass through Pakistan's capital of Islamabad and Karachi.

World Bulletin / News Desk

A research study regarding an international railway project linking Pakistan with China’s East Turkestan (Xinjiang) province through Azad Jammu and Kashmir has been commissioned by China, according to a Times of India and China Daily report.

State-run China Daily while quoting the director of East Turkestan's regional development and reform commission, Zhang Chunlin, said, the rail link funded primarily by China would connect East Turkestan’s western city Kashgar to the Gwadar deep sea port of Pakistan.

"The 1,800-km China-Pakistan railway is planned to also pass through Pakistan's capital of Islamabad and Karachi," Zhang had said at the two-day International Seminar on the Silk Road Economic Belt being held in Urumqi, East Turkestan's capital.

Due to geo-strategic implications the project would be hard to proceed with because it is mandatory for the rail project to run through the Pamir Plateau and Karakoram Mountains.

Zhang stated that once the project was finished it would emerge as one of the most strategically beneficial transportation infrastructures on the China-Pakistan economic corridor.

"Although the cost of constructing the railway is expected to be high due to the hostile environment and complicated geographic conditions, the study of the project has already been started," he added.

President Xi Jinping was also in favour for trade routes connecting China, Central Asia and Europe to be built.

A multi-billion deal has already been signed to initiate work on an Economic Corridor linking Kashgar with the port city of Gwadar through AJK.

The project exhibits tremendous potential as it would enable China to run a port alongside Gulf of Oman which opens doors for them to access activities relating to oil tankers.

India however has objected to the project citing concerns that the said route would involve a disputed territory.

 

[koolio]

The 1,800-km China-Pakistan railway is planned to also pass through Pakistan's capital of Islamabad and Karachi.

World Bulletin / News Desk

A research study regarding an international railway project linking Pakistan with China’s East Turkestan (Xinjiang) province through Azad Jammu and Kashmir has been commissioned by China, according to a Times of India and China Daily report.

State-run China Daily while quoting the director of East Turkestan's regional development and reform commission, Zhang Chunlin, said, the rail link funded primarily by China would connect East Turkestan’s western city Kashgar to the Gwadar deep sea port of Pakistan.

"The 1,800-km China-Pakistan railway is planned to also pass through Pakistan's capital of Islamabad and Karachi," Zhang had said at the two-day International Seminar on the Silk Road Economic Belt being held in Urumqi, East Turkestan's capital.

Due to geo-strategic implications the project would be hard to proceed with because it is mandatory for the rail project to run through the Pamir Plateau and Karakoram Mountains.

Zhang stated that once the project was finished it would emerge as one of the most strategically beneficial transportation infrastructures on the China-Pakistan economic corridor.

"Although the cost of constructing the railway is expected to be high due to the hostile environment and complicated geographic conditions, the study of the project has already been started," he added.

President Xi Jinping was also in favour for trade routes connecting China, Central Asia and Europe to be built.

A multi-billion deal has already been signed to initiate work on an Economic Corridor linking Kashgar with the port city of Gwadar through AJK.

The project exhibits tremendous potential as it would enable China to run a port alongside Gulf of Oman which opens doors for them to access activities relating to oil tankers.

India however has objected to the project citing concerns that the said route would involve a disputed territory.

India cant do jack shit, they couldnt stop the karakoram highway being built and now 95% of work to re-pave the road is completed along with few landslide tunnels, in any case the railway will be built sometime.