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. According to an official of the Communications Ministry the project would not only facilitate transit trade in the country but will also help in establishing regional connectivity. The project is expected to affect fast track development of backward areas and would include industrial parks and economic zones along the proposed Kashghar-Gwadar trade corridor that would connect China’s western autonomous regions with Baluchistan. As per the alignment of Pak-China Motorway, this trade corridor will be around 2,000 kilometres long. The official said that this trade corridor would provide Chinese traders a link to deliver their goods to the international markets through the Gwadar Port. He said that this port if compared with other Chinese ports, would be the shortest possible route to the western provinces of China.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 8th, 2013.
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Bright Future For Pakistan Inshallah
@ JK, I am pretty sure China is not stupid enough to set up a naval base in Gwadar to provoke India or to a larger extent USA and Gulf States. Its business as usual.
I hope we are not making another "East India Company"