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Echoes from the Karakorum

A photojournalist's journey through China-Pakistan Economic Corridor

By Wu Xiaohui | China Daily Global | Updated: 2025-06-27 10:10

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A Pakistani businessman talks on the phone while preparing to load cherries for export to China, in Hunza, along the Karakorum Highway, in northern Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan, on June 12. PHOTO BY WU XIAOHUI/CHINA DAILY

Then came a wave of breathlessness. I slowed down. I had just arrived here two hours ago, forgetting that the average altitude in Tashikurgan exceeds 4,000 meters. Not far from here stands K2, the world's second-highest mountain.

As I adjusted my breathing, I stopped by a stall run by Izhar Khamoosh, a Pakistani businessman. Noticing my discomfort, he offered me a handful of dried apricots.

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