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More and more states are participating in the rival to have a chance of receiving a profit from transit of the cargo along the Great Silk Road. One of the alpine countries, Tajikistan, joined the rival. For last time government of this country focused on building of the road through the Eastern Pamir by the route Kulyab-Kalayhumb-Murgab-Kulma-Karakorum.

The new road has not only social and economic significance, but a strategic as well, because it allows to launch a traffic with China, and direct the cargo to ports of Indian Ocean along the Karakorum road.

The Karakorum road, named the "eight miracle of the world", one of the biggest and original of Asian projects. The route with its distance of 1300 kilometers linked the Western China to the capital of Pakistan, Islamabad and the main port of this country, Karachi. Building of the route began in 1967. The road was very hard for workers to build it for its complicated location, alonf the narrow mountain corridors and the most difficult passes in the world. To solve the very complicated building problems advanced methods of that period were used. The road mainly was build at the expense of China and cost amounted about three billion US $ dollars. 25 thousand engineers and workers took part in the building. Traffic along the new route began in 1978, though the final completion of the road ended in 1986.

Considerable part of an export and import traffic torrent between Pakistan and China falls to the share of Karakorum route. Karakorum route is considered to be an all-weather. To maintain the route China and Pakistan regularly give necessary funds.

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