Saturday 19 December 2015

Pak-China Friendship Tunnel and Attabad Lake Gojal, Hunza

Gojal valley is a beautiful place situated in the north of Pakistan. It is also known as Upper Hunza. It has more then 25 villages. One of the beautiful Park of Pakistan namely Khunjerav National Park is in Gojal, which connects China and Pakistan. This park is situated at about 15,000 feet.


       The people of this area are very merciful and hardworking. Tourists from all over the world visits the place in every season and mostly in summer. All four seasons exists here. Gojal is famous for its beautiful and high mountains, glaciers, rivers and many more. The fruits in this area are very testy and all kind of fruits are available here. Like apricot, apple, grapes, mulberry, cherry, strawberry etc. Some few years back the people used to sell potatoes and earn money, but due to attabad disaster the people almost stop producing potatoes.

 Attabad landslide happens on 4th January 2010. For the first people travel through helicopter after some months the river turns to a huge lake and people start traveling through boats. It was very difficult to carry patients to the city. After that china support the effected areas by giving relief to the people. But china didn't stop its trade, it helps people to make money from this by loading and unloading goods from truck to boat and from boat to trucks. During this year china was making roads. And the people are working with chines and earning money. It helps every people to earn money. People used to travel through boats for more than five years and it was also difficult time.

There was one way to connect gojal with gilgit is to make tunnel along attabad lake. The chines start working on this, it took about 3 years and china complete its mission and make tunnel along attabad lake. It was really good news for the people of Gojal. It was a big gift given to the people of gojal by the Chines government. Without chines this was about impossible to make such work. And finally on 14 September 2015 Pakistani Prime Minister Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif inaugurate Pak-China Friendship tunnel, after that the tunnel was open for all traffic. That was the day when Gojal fully connect with gilgit City. It was really a surprising time for the people because before this it takes more than 12 hour to reach gilgit and now it takes only 3 hour to reach Gilgit. The people thanks the government of China for that and the china also done this for their benefit also because its all trade with Pakistan takes place through Karakouram Highway(KKH). KKH is also known as Eight wonder of the world.







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