http://www.blizzardboy.net/news/xinjiang-pakistan-railway.html A Kiwi-Japanese family's adventures down under Sat, 03 Sep 2011 22:05:24 +0900 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://www.blizzardboy.net/news/xinjiang-pakistan-railway.html/comment-page-1#comment-13483 Our Silk Road » More Xinjiang Railway Plans Fri, 11 Aug 2006 16:53:08 +0000 http://www.blizzardboy.net/japan/xinjiang-pakistan-railway.html#comment-13483 [...] This comes on the back of talk of a line linking Kashgar with Pakistan over the Karakoram Highway as well as mention we heard made whilst we were in the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek recently of a line connecting Kashgar with Kyrgyzstan’s second largest city - Osh. All this might sound like a grandious dream - three new rail routes for Xinjiang - but with the regional importance of Xinjiang in relation to Central Asia and the rich oil reserves waiting to be exploited it certainly wouldn’t be surprising to see a beginning made on some of these plans in the not too distant future. [...] [...] This comes on the back of talk of a line linking Kashgar with Pakistan over the Karakoram Highway as well as mention we heard made whilst we were in the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek recently of a line connecting Kashgar with Kyrgyzstan’s second largest city – Osh. All this might sound like a grandious dream – three new rail routes for Xinjiang – but with the regional importance of Xinjiang in relation to Central Asia and the rich oil reserves waiting to be exploited it certainly wouldn’t be surprising to see a beginning made on some of these plans in the not too distant future. [...]

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