China's overland Silk Road and Maritime Silk Road Thread
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Under construction 147 MW Patrind Hydro Power Project, , Azad & ,
That is like travelling on a plane, but I hope the chair space are not like the one on the plane
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to join Pakistan road link bypassing
While Kabul is reluctant to finalise a transit trade agreement with Islamabad, Tajikistan is poised to join a separate initiative which will connect Pakistan to Central Asia, bypassing Afghanistan entirely.
Tajikistan’s request for inclusion into the Quadrilateral Traffic in Transit Agreement (QTTA) — a deal between China, Pakistan, and for facilitating transit traffic and trade — has been approved. The Central Asian state will now become a formal participant once its parliament approves the move, they said.
Tajikistan looks to promote trade in Pakistan
Inclusion in QTTA — which was signed in Islamabad in 1995 — will grant landlocked Tajikistan access to Pakistan’s ports, including Gwadar, without having to depend on Afghanistan. It will provide safe passage to traders from both Pakistan and Tajikistan. Trade between the two countries has risen steadily from $15 million in 2011 to $90 million in 2016, and Tajikistan wants to bring the volume up to $500 million.
Up till now, Pakistani traders have had to rely on the land route through Afghanistan to access Tajikistan and other Central Asian States. Pakistan and Afghanistan had been negotiating a transit trade agreement but Kabul’s insistence that India be included in the arrangement led to a deadlock in discussions. Due to tensions with India over unrest in Occupied Kashmir and Delhi’s attempts to implicate Islamabad in rebel attacks on military installations, Pakistan could not accommodate Kabul’s demand. But while Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani threatened to cut off Pakistan’s access to Central Asia if it did not include India in the transit deal, China revived QTTA to further tap the potential of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, officials said. QTTA provides Pakistan a gateway to Central Asia by using the Karakoram Highway — which links Gilgit-Baltistan to China’s Xinjiang region — as a transit corridor.
Tajikistan’s hydel power production – a model to follow
With Pakistan’s exports declining by over $4 billion over the last few years, it has looked to tap the potential of Central Asian and Russian markets. Kyrgyzstan has offered a route to Russia to Pakistani traders. At the same time, Pakistani ports provide landlocked Central Asian states the closest maritime facilities for trade. Currently, they rely on seaports in China, Turkey, Iran, Russia and the Baltic States.
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Dawn of The Rising East – The Economic Corridor.
This is the Gilgit Baltistan part of China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). Gilgit-Baltistan will be drawing benefit from the multibillion dollar project as an exclusive economic zone has been dedicated for the region.
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ECO+ CPEC:13th Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) with the theme of "Connectivity for Regional Prosperity” 9 Countries Presidents and prime ministers in Islamabad
The Economic Cooperation Organization was the successor organisation of what was the Regional Cooperation for Development (RCD), founded in 1964, which ended activities in 1979. In 1985 Iran, Pakistan and Turkey joined to form the ECO. By the fall of 1992, the ECO expanded to include seven new members; Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
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NHA EXECUTES 15 MOTORWAYS, HIGHWAYS PROJECTS IN LAST 3 YEARS
--- Highway (N-85) completed at a cost of over Rs18bn.
National Highway Authority (NHA) has executed fifteen motorways and highways projects in the last three years.
According to detail NHA completed Basima-Nag-Panjgoor-Hoshab Highway (N-85) at a cost of over eighteen billion rupees.
Balance work of 193 km -Hoshab section of M-8 was completed at a cost of thirteen billion rupees. One hundred e hundred eleven km -- highway was completed at the cost six billion.
The NHA completed two section of the Faisalabad-Multan Motorway in 2015. It completed 56 km - section at the cost of twelve billion and 58 km - section at the cost of over nine billion.
Another important project completed during last year was 144 km - section of Highway which cost over six billion rupees.
Earlier -Raikot section of the KKH was upgraded at the cost of over five billion rupees.
About 197 km - section of Indus Highway was upgraded and the project cost over fourteen billion rupees.