KKH, Khunjerab pass and Hunza valley (Pakistan)

Posted on February 25, 2011


The Karakoram Highway (KKH) is the highest paved international road in the world. It connects China and Pakistan across the Karakoram mountain range, through the Khunjerab Pass, at an altitude of 4730 metres, by far the highest paved international border crossing in the world. It connects China’s Xinjiang region with Pakistan’s Northern Areas and also serves as a popular tourist attraction. Hunza Valley (Urdu: ????) is a valley near Gilgit and Nagar vallies in the Northern Areas of Pakistan. The Hunza valley is situated at an elevation of 2438 metres (7999 feet). The territory of Hunza is about 7900 km? [3050 sq, miles]. Karimabad is the main town which is a popular tourist attraction in Pakistan because of the spectacular scenery of the surrounding mountains like Rakaposhi 7788 m (25551 ft), Ultar Sar (7388 m), Bojahagur Duanasir II (7329 m), Ghenta Peak (7090 m), Hunza Peak (6270 m), Darmyani Peak (6090 m) and Bublimating (Ladyfinger Peak) (6000 m). Hunza was formerly a princely state in the northernmost part of the Northern Areas of Pakistan, which existed until 1974. The state bordered the Gilgit Agency to the south, the former princely state of Nagar to the east, China to the north and Afghanistan to the northwest. The state capital was the town of Baltit (also known as Karimabad). The area of Hunza now forms the Aliabad tehsil of Gilgit District. Hunza was an independent principality for 900 years. The British gained control of Hunza and the neighbouring valley of …

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25 thoughts on “KKH, Khunjerab pass and Hunza valley (Pakistan)”

  1. @Bradleyharrogate one day you will change your mind ;;;its my faith you will totally change insha Allah

  12. J’aime bien les abricots qui s?chent au soleil sur les toits.
    I like seeing apricots drying in the sun on rooftops.
    And men and women harvesting wheat by hand! And they look so happy!

  15. USA may readily stop all sorts of aid to Pakistan. As the aids/loans are not reaching a common man for whom they are declared. Rather they are the root cause of confiscation of human rights & basic needs of life thus promoting injustice & a hurdle in implementing law & order paving way for all the dogmatism US/India want to exercise here. Its Pakistans political filth which is starving for the aid. Common man is neither interested nor awaiting such aid which is rather Gods wrath for him

  16. What has USA gained by involving fully in Pakistans internal affairs & promoting poverty, fake inflation, no jobs, lawlessness, injustice, corruption, & all the mischief one can think of by implementing political filth to rule Pakistan. Instead its own economy stands destroyed to the worst level. Plus the global hatred US earned is clearly visible. If instead US had tried to promote prosperity, equality, implementation of justice law & order it would have been loved, respected and obeyed more.

  18. who cares about the ethnicity iam pakistani and there are a lot different people in pakistan we are all pakistani

  19. China is the neighbor & friend of Pakistan that we can always be proud of. It has helped Pakistan many a times from the global crisis created off & on for Pakistan. India being Pakistans worst enemy has been knocked out by China many a times to save Pakistans solemnity. China offers utilities at very attractive & affordable prices to Pakistan but our political filth is busy confiscating human rights creating poverty,fake inflation, imposing injustice corruption & lighting fires in their graves

  21. stop spreading lies , fyrom are ex-yugoslav speaking slavic population, they have nothing to do with macedonians and the helinistic world

    macedonia is greece

  22. Yea and the Kalash dont like the Greeks/Macedonians examining them like museum artifacts. Kalash people are patriotic Pakistanis and Pakistanis love Turkey not their archrival Greece.

    Long Live Pakistan-Turkey Brotherhood!

  24. look! go down the comments page and there’s even a bloody Albanian trying to claim ownership of the Kalasha. Surely it can’t be long before Nigerians start turning up claiming racial paternity?

    Anyway, sorry about the rant valpard, great video. It’s just that these people do a lot of damage in the Kalash Valleys.

  25. Look at wildboynk’s comment ffs: “Hunzas are welcome in his motherland Republic of Macedonia, Macedonians love you back”. I don’t think they really five a fuck mate, they would probably stay where they are than go and live in a country they’ve never even heard off. FFS go and find something else to be proud and patriotic about, like Alexander’s fondness for young boys.

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