Jammu,
\nDays after Beijing envoy Luo Zhaohui suggested alternative routes through Jammu and Kashmir to address India\u2019s concerns regarding the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti has favoured the need \u201cto rediscover traditional routes of Kashmir\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cReinforces the need to rediscover traditional trade routes of Kashmir. Will open avenues for greater economic ties and cultural exchanges,\u201d Mehbooba wrote on Twitter while reacting to the China\u2019s proposal for alternative routes for CPEC \u0007via J&K and Nepal.<\/p>\n
CPEC, flagship project of China\u2019s prestigious One Belt One Road (OBOR), passes through Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and the estimated cost of the project is nearly $60 billion. The project comprises construction of about a dozen power projects, grand road, railway network connecting Kashghar city of China with Gwadar port city of Pakistan, 11 industrial zones and laying of fibre optic from Kashghar to Islamabad.<\/p>\n
This is not for the first time when Mehbooba has come out in support of projects like the CPEC. In March this year, she had said it was time to \u201cmove beyond border skirmishes\u201d to be partners in economic growth and also partners in projects like CPEC.<\/p>\n
While describing J&K as the \u2018Gateway to Central Asia\u2019, Mehbooba had said: \u201cJ&K could become a corridor of economic activity in the region and the country could take huge benefit from the economic activities going on across the Line of Control. Why can\u2019t we be partners in economic growth and share the benefits of projects like CPEC? Let us move beyond skirmishes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jammu, Days after Beijing envoy Luo Zhaohui suggested alternative routes through Jammu and Kashmir to address India\u2019s concerns regarding the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti has favoured the need \u201cto rediscover traditional routes of Kashmir\u201d. \u201cReinforces the need to rediscover traditional trade routes of Kashmir. Will open avenues for greater economic ties […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10981,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[312],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10982,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10980\/revisions\/10982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}