{"id":87840,"date":"2022-08-08T09:06:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T04:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=87840"},"modified":"2022-08-05T17:53:26","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T12:53:26","slug":"pakistan-china-babusar-top-tunnel-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistan-china-babusar-top-tunnel-project.html","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan to request China to include Babusar Top Tunnel project in CPEC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Islamabad: The government of Pakistan has decided to include the Babusar Top Tunnel project (N-15) in the China-Pakistan-Economic-Corridor (CPEC), news sources reported on August 4. The proposal for the project&#8217;s inclusion will be shared with the Chinese side during the upcoming&nbsp; CPEC Joint Coordination Committee (JCC) meeting. &nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/cpec-upcoming-jcc-meeting-progress.html\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"87690\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Minister reviews progress made on upcoming CPEC\u2019s 11th JCC meeting<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project is included in the CPEC projects for its importance to tourism and connectivity. The 13-kilometre-long Babusar Top Tunnel is one of the only roads that connect the<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/kaghan-valley-first-ecotourism-village.html\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"84586\" target=\"_blank\"> Kaghan Valley and Chilas<\/a> of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and Gilgit Baltistan (GB), making it an important tourist route for the northern regions. The tunnel is currently being developed by the National Highway Authority (NHA), with a feasibility study completed. Recently, Prime Minister (PM) Shehbaz Sharif visited the area and ordered the swift completion of the project, which is also vital for the year-round connectivity between KP and GB. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/gb-opens-bungalow-babusar-track.html\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"87094\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">GB govt opens Bungalow Babusar Track for tourists<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The area usually closes during the extreme winter months due to heavy snowfall. With the tunnel&#8217;s construction, locals and tourists will be able to travel to their regions and tourist sites without halt.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The government of Pakistan has decided to include the Babusar Top Tunnel project (N-15) in the China-Pakistan-Economic-Corridor (CPEC), news sources reported on August 4. The proposal for the project&#8217;s inclusion will be shared with the Chinese side during the upcoming&nbsp; CPEC Joint Coordination Committee (JCC) meeting. &nbsp; Read: Minister reviews progress made on upcoming CPEC\u2019s 11th JCC meeting The project is included in the CPEC projects for its importance to tourism and connectivity. The 13-kilometre-long Babusar Top Tunnel is one of the only roads that connect the Kaghan Valley and Chilas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and Gilgit Baltistan (GB), making it an important tourist route for the northern regions. The tunnel is currently being developed by the National Highway Authority (NHA), with a feasibility study completed. Recently, Prime Minister (PM) Shehbaz Sharif visited the area and ordered the swift completion of the project, which is also vital for the year-round connectivity between KP and GB. Read: GB govt opens Bungalow Babusar Track for tourists The area usually closes during the extreme winter months due to heavy snowfall. With the tunnel&#8217;s construction, locals and tourists will be able to travel to their regions and tourist sites without halt.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":69325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20385],"tags":[53473,30426,46862,53472],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-87840","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-development-projects","8":"tag-babusar-top-tunnel-project","9":"tag-china-pakistan-economic-corridor-2","10":"tag-joint-coordination-committee-jcc","11":"tag-pakistan-to-request-china-to-include-babusar-top-tunnel-project-in-cpec","12":"cat-20385-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pakistan to request China to include Babusar Top Tunnel project in CPEC- Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Islamabad: The government of Pakistan has decided to include the Babusar Top Tunnel project (N-15) in the China-Pakistan-Economic-Corridor (CPEC), news\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistan-china-babusar-top-tunnel-project.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pakistan to request China to include Babusar Top Tunnel project in CPEC- Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Islamabad: The government of Pakistan has decided to include the Babusar Top Tunnel project (N-15) in the China-Pakistan-Economic-Corridor (CPEC), news\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistan-china-babusar-top-tunnel-project.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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