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Not so glossy – Cracks appearing in the reconstructed Karakuram Highway already

Gilgit: The Karakuram Highway Expansion and Repair project by the China Roads and Bridges Corporation (CRBC) is coming to an end, and so is the locally long-held notion of Chinese construction supremacy.
The KKH, which has been “under-construction” for almost a decade, is showing cracks and the molten charcoal use is oozing from the ground, as exhibited in these photographs taken by Aejaz Karim.


