{"id":573010,"date":"2023-04-29T11:39:07","date_gmt":"2023-04-29T06:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=573010"},"modified":"2023-04-29T13:11:40","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T07:41:40","slug":"chinas-railway-link-to-pak-to-cost-usd-57-8-bn-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/chinas-railway-link-to-pak-to-cost-usd-57-8-bn-study\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s railway link to Pak to cost USD 57.8 bn: Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s plan to build a railway link to Pakistan through the disputed Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) region could cost about USD 57.7 billion, according to an official feasibility study, which recommended the government to go ahead with the project for its strategic significance, despite heavy costs, a media report said on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>The proposed 3,000-km railway, connecting Pakistan\u2019s port of Gwadar to Kashgar in China\u2019s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), was assessed by scientists from the state-owned China Railway First Survey and Design Institute Group Co Ltd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s plan to build a railway link to Pakistan through the disputed Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) region could cost about USD 57.7 billion, according to an official feasibility study, which recommended the government to go ahead with the project for its strategic significance, despite heavy costs, a media report said on Thursday. The proposed 3,000-km railway, connecting Pakistan\u2019s port of Gwadar to Kashgar in China\u2019s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), was assessed by scientists from the state-owned China Railway First Survey and Design Institute Group Co Ltd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,266,150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-tribune","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}