The Pakistan China trade routes thousands of years ago

The trade between Pakistan and China is nothing new. The trade has been going on for thousands of years.

Hu makes 5-point proposal for Sino-Pak partnership Hu suggested the two countries:

1)  Consolidate the political basis of their strategic partnership, Maintain exchanges and cooperation at various levels between governments, legislatures, political parties and armed forces so as to ensure the consistency and stability of their strategic partnership, and Strengthen communication and consultation on major issues.

2) Hu proposed that progress on the negotiations on service trade should be accelerated, and a comprehensive free trade area should be established as early as possible. The Chinese government will continue to encourage Chinese companies to enhance cooperation with Pakistani companies in areas including finance, telecom, energy and transportation.

3) Hu urged the two countries to strengthen cooperation in fighting terrorism and drug control, and enhance exchanges and cooperation over Beijing Olympic Games security.

4) Hu called for enhancing cooperation and exchanges in areas of culture, education, health, sports, tourism, and between media and academic organisations. He encouraged the two countries to expand exchanges between women, young people and non-governmental organisations, and strengthen cooperation in human resource development and professional training.

5) Hu also suggested to enhance multilateral cooperation with Pakistan, continue close coordination and cooperation in the United Nations, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, the Regional Forum of the Association of the Southeast Asian Nations, and the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, so as to safeguard common interests of China and Pakistan, as well as those of other developing countries.

SANYA, Hainan: Chinese President Hu Jintao made a five-point proposal Friday morning for further promoting the China-Pakistan strategic partnership.

Hu made the proposals in talks with President Pervez Musharraf in Sanya, a scenic city on south China’s island province of Hainan, according to Xinhua news agency.

Hu suggested the two countries consolidate the political basis of their strategic partnership, maintain exchanges and cooperation at various levels between governments, legislatures, political parties and armed forces so as to ensure the consistency and stability of their strategic partnership, and strengthen communication and consultation on major issues.

Hu proposed that progress on the negotiations on service trade should be accelerated, and a comprehensive free trade area should be established as early as possible. The Chinese government will continue to encourage Chinese companies to enhance cooperation with Pakistani companies in areas including finance, telecom, energy and transportation.

Hu urged the two countries to strengthen cooperation in fighting terrorism and drug control, and enhance exchanges and cooperation over Beijing Olympic Games security.

Hu called for enhancing cooperation and exchanges in areas of culture, education, health, sports, tourism, and between media and academic organisations. He encouraged the two countries to expand exchanges between women, young people and non-governmental organisations, and strengthen cooperation in human resource development and professional training.

Hu also suggested to enhance multilateral cooperation with Pakistan, continue close coordination and cooperation in the United Nations, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, the Regional Forum of the Association of the Southeast Asian Nations, and the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, so as to safeguard common interests of China and Pakistan, as well as those of other developing countries.

Following the round of formal talks, the two leaders also witnessed signing of two Memorandums of Understanding and an agreement.

These included an MoU between the ministries of Water and Power of the two countries, another on cooperation in sports and the third for cooperation in the area of engineering, sciences and technology. – Online.

Pakistan is working with China to hook up the Pakistan Railways to the Trans Asian Railway Network. This will facilitiate trade to the Central Asian Republics, Russia and China.

The plan is to hook up the two countries with road, rial, fiber opitc links

Trade between the people of the Indus and the people of the Yangtse has been going on for thousands of years. Commerce between the Indus Valley Civilizaiton (aka Pakistan 5000 years ago) and Ughuristan, Eastern Turkistan or Xinxiang has been an integral of the Pakistani and Kashmiri economy. Despite many claims this is the original Silk Route, and both China and Pakistan are detrmined to update it with modern fibre, rail, road and business links.

Fibre-optic line, oil & gas pipeline rail track linking Karakorum Highway to Gwadar

Pakistan, China to bolster defence, energy, trade ties

* Chinese president describes relations with Pakistan as ‘high priority’

SANYA: Vowing to enhance co-operation in defence, energy and trade, President Pervez Musharraf and his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao hoped on Friday that these would be further strengthened as the new government comes into power in Pakistan.

President Hu Jintao described ties with Pakistan as a “high priority relationship”, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi told reporters after the meeting.

He said that the two leaders had discussed co-operation in nuclear energy. Both countries hoped to raise bilateral trade between them to $15 billion, he added.

During the meeting, Islamabad proposed that the two countries could improve connectivity by adding a fibre-optic line, an oil and gas pipeline and a rail track linking the Karakorum Highway to Gwadar.

Musharraf also extended Pakistan’s full support to China for the Beijing Olympics and assured Hu that the Olympic torch relay in Islamabad later this month would be held peaceably.

Following the formal talks, the two leaders witnessed signing of two memorandums of understanding (MoU) and an agreement, one of which seeks to extend co-operation in managing water resources and hydroelectric power.

Following the meeting, Hu hosted a dinner in honour of Musharraf and his entourage, which includes Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi and Defence Minister Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar. app

India onto the Iron Silk Road

Although India did not sign the so-called Trans-Asia Railway Network (TARN) agreement on 10 November, within a few weeks New Delhi seems to have changed its mind.

Rail India Technical and Economical Services, a public enterprise under India’s Ministry of Railways, has been asked to conduct a feasibility study of the project. The sudden re-think seems to be linked to worries that, while India stood watching, China would be successfully improving its own regional relations and connections, particularly given its recent agreements to build rail tracks in Burma and Thailand.

The TARN agreement was signed by 17 countries, including China, under the auspices of the United Nations’ Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP). Although currently hampered by a great disparity in gauge sizes, the ultimate plan for TARN, sometimes called the ‘Iron Silk Road’, will be a linking of Europe with Chinese ports, and the inclusion of several branch routes.

Alongside a great number of West, East and Southeast Asian states, Nepal and Sri Lanka are for the moment the only Southasian countries that have signed up. The remaining countries have until the end of 2007 to enter into the agreement.