1972, Norman D. Palmer, “China's Relations with India and Pakistan”, in King C. Chen, editor, The Foreign Policy of China[1], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 489:
A year and a half later, an even more important road link was opened. This was an all-weather macadamized motor highway known as the Friendship (Karakoram) Highway, through the Khunjerab Pass, built on the Pakistan side by Pakistan army engineers with the help of several thousand Chinese.
The Karakoram Highway (KKH) connects the Silk Road oasis of Kashgar with Rawalpindi and Islamabad, Pakistan's capital, via the 4730m Khunjerab Pass, the semi-mythical Hunza Valley and the trading post of Gilgit.
In September of 2008, a woman with piercing green eyes named Nasreen Baig embarked on an arduous journey from her home in the tiny Pakistani village of Zuudkhan south along the Indus River and down the precipitous Karakoram Highway to the bustling city of Rawalpindi.
The Karakoram Highway, which links China and Pakistan over the 15,400-foot Khunjerab Pass, winds through some spectacular gorges along the route of the old Silk Road. The international "Friendship Highway," which isn't even paved on the Pakistani side, is so unstable and prone to flash floods that almost 900 workers died during its construction, mostly crushed by landslides.
The morning quake struck in Taxkorgan county, a remote mountainous area that borders Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan in China’s Xinjiang region.[…] The county has a population around 33,000 and is notable for being a stop on the Karakoram Highway, built along the ancient Silk Road connecting China’s far western city of Kashgar to the Pakistani capital of Islamabad.
2017 November 3, Rina Saeed Khan, “Pakistan’s glaciers face new threat: Highway’s black carbon”, in Reuters[9], archived from the original on 17 May 2022, APAC[10]:
This border outpost on the Karakoram Highway, slashed through the glacier-strewn Karakoram mountains to join China and Pakistan by road, boasts a new world record: It has the world’s highest automated bank teller machine.
2019 July 12, “Tour de Impossible? Pakistan hosts 'world's toughest cycle race'”, in France 24[11], archived from the original on 12 July 2019[12]:
The cyclists' tyres swallow up the asphalt of the Karakoram Highway, one of the highest paved roads in the world. Named after the Karakoram mountain range -- just one of the ranges in Gilgit -- the road passes through an extraordinary landscape.
