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Gilgit was an important city on the Silk Road, along which Buddhism spread from South Asia to the rest of Asia. It is considered a Buddhism corridor, along which many Chinese monks came to Kashmir, to learn and to preach Buddhism. [7] Two famous Chinese Buddhist pilgrims, Faxian and Xuanzang, traversed Gilgit, according to their accounts.
Khunjerab Railway (Urdu: خنجراب ریل راستہ), also known as the China–Pakistan railway and ML-5, is a semi-planned railway line in Pakistan, passing through the region of Kashmir. The current active line begins from Taxila Junction station and ends at Havelian station .
Gilgit-Baltistan (/ ˌ ɡ ɪ l ɡ ɪ t ˌ b ɔː l t ɪ ˈ s t ɑː n,-s t æ n /; Urdu: گِلْگِت بَلْتِسْتان [12] listen ⓘ), [a] formerly known as the Northern Areas, [13] is a region administered by Pakistan as an administrative territory and consists of the northern portion of the larger Kashmir region, which has been the subject of a dispute between India and Pakistan ...
Gilgit-Baltistan is an administrative territory of Pakistan that borders the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to the west, Azad Kashmir to the southwest, Wakhan Corridor of Afghanistan to the northwest, the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China to the north, and the Indian-administered region of Jammu and Kashmir to the south and south-east.
China citing the fact that Mintaka would be more susceptible to air strikes, recommended the steeper Khunjerab Pass instead. [ 1 ] On the Pakistani-administered side, the pass is 42 km (26 mi) from the National Park station and checkpoint in Dih, 75 km (47 mi) from the customs and immigration post in Sost , 270 km (170 mi) from Gilgit , and 870 ...
'Chinā Yadgār'), [4] is a graveyard located in Danyor, Gilgit–Baltistan, about ten kilometres away from the capital city of Gilgit across the Gilgit River. The cemetery, established in early 1970, serves as the final resting place of Chinese workers and engineers who died during the construction of the Karakoram Highway (KKH) in Pakistan ...
Aerial View of The Karakoram Highway. The Karakoram Highway (Urdu: شاہراہ قراقرم, Śāhirāh-i Qarāquram), also known as the KKH, National Highway 35 (Urdu: قومی شاہراہ ۳۵), N-35, and the China–Pakistan Friendship Highway, is a 1,300 km (810 mi) national highway which extends from Hasan Abdal in the Punjab province of Pakistan to the Khunjerab Pass in Gilgit ...
Large aquamarine beryl from the Haramosh Mountains, Gilgit District. The Gilgit District (Urdu: ضلع گلگت) is one of the 14 districts of Pakistan-administered territory of Gilgit-Baltistan in the disputed Kashmir region. [1] The headquarters of the district is the town of Gilgit. At the 1998 census, the Gilgit District had a population of ...