Pakistan-China border opens today

SKARDU: The Pakistan-China border will be opened for commercial activities from today.The border is being opened for ten days and during the period, goods carrying vehicles from Pakistan will leave for China and Central Asian countries under the transit trade from Pakistan. Caretaker Prime Minister Anwar Al-Haq Kakar had said at a Belt and Road Forum event in Beijing in October that the pass would be converted into an all-weather border.

However, the China-Pakistan trade corridor was closed in December for five months of winter. Customs sources told The News that the government had decided to open the Khunjarab Corridor for ten days from today on an experimental basis. NLC cargo vehicles will depart from China to Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and other Central Asian countries under the International Transit Trade Agreement, while NLC vehicles will depart from China to Afghanistan.