Karakoram Highway Karakoram Highway The Karakoram Highway (, also known as N-35 or National Highway 35 (), or the China-Pakistan Friendship Highway) is a national highway which extends from Hasan Abdal in the Punjab province of Pakistan to the Khunjerab Pass in Gilgit-Baltistan, where it crosses into China and becomes China National Highway 314. The highway connects the Pakistani provinces of Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Gilgit-Baltistan with China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. The highway is a popular tourist attraction, and is one of the highest paved roads in the world, passing through the Karakoram mountain range, at at maximum elevation of near
S-1 Strategic Highway Project has been facing delays since 2008. Repairing and widening has still not begun, despite an announcement by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in April 2015, during his visit to Gilgit. The proposed Gilgit-Skardu Expressway plans to rebuild the entire highway at a cost of . As of September 2017, construction had started. S-1 Strategic Highway Strategic Highway 1 (S-1) or more popularly known as Gilgit–Skardu Road (Urdu, Shina, Balti: ) or Skardu Road is a 167 km long Strategic Highway linking Gilgit with Skardu in Gilgit-Baltistan territory. The highway begins south of Gilgit on the N-35 National Highway (Karakoram Highway),