China to upgrade Karakorum Highway
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China and Pakistan have signed agreements to build a new airport and upgrade the fabled Karakorum Highway as part of efforts to build an “economic corridor” through rugged mountains and regions torn by insurgent violence.
Yesterday’s signings followed a summit in Beijing between Pakistani President Mamnoon Hussain and Chinese President Xi Jinping that underscored close ties between the neighbors.
“Friendship with China is the most important pillar of our foreign policy and security policy,” Hussain said in brief comments at the start of their meeting.
Xi said: “The Chinese people cherish a profound friendship with the people of Pakistan.”
The planned economic corridor will incorporate a 2,000-kilometer transport link connecting Kashgar in northwestern China to the little-used Pakistani port of Gwadar on the Arabian Sea near the border with Iran. That could include a railway and oil pipeline.
Control of Gwadar was transferred to China’s state-owned China Overseas Ports Holding Co Ltd in February 2013.
One of the agreements signed concerns the construction of an international airport at Gwadar. Another is for upgrading a section of the Karakorum Highway connecting to Islamabad.
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