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Karakoram
Highway (Silk Route) A new all-weather road, the Karakoram Highway connecting Rawalpindi/Islamabad with China’s Sinkiang Province runs through the Northern Areas. The 805 kms.
dual carriage metalled road starts from Havelian 100 kms. from Islamabad
and winds through
Abbottabad-Mansehra-Thakot-Besham-Pattan-Sazin-Chils-Gilgit-Hunza to the
Chinese Frontier across the 4,733 metres high Khunjerab Pass. The road
built by the Pakistan Army engineers in association with the Chinese
experts and technicians has been described as a marvel of civil
engineering and even as "the Eight Wonder of the World."
Completed in 15 years, it has been forced through some of the world’s
toughest terrain. The road not only opens up the Northern Areas to trade
and travel but provides easy access to hitherto closed regions, connected
by jeep or goat tracks. PTDC and
Northern Area Transport Company (NATCO) are playing regular bus service
between Sost (Pakistan) and Taxkargan (china) for overland traffic between
Pakistan and China, from 1st May till 15 October every year. General
Information Communication Almost all
the places in the Northern Areas are linked by telephone with the rest of
the country and the outside world. A number of public all offices are
located in the Northern Areas. Both the Post Office and the Special
Communications Organization maintain networks of telephone and wireless
system. DON’T’S In the
northern areas, please don’t photograph military installations, major
bridges and airports. Taking photographs of women is also strictly
prohibited but the girls in the Kalash valleys can be photographed
provided they agree: the usually pose on payment. Please do not travel at
night on mountain roads and do not swim in the rivers up north or other
fast flowing mountain streams.
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