The money road between Pakistan and China

Few people know that the Silk Road of olde, had a southern branch off Kashgar that went over the Himalayas and finally over Afghanistan to Pakistan.

It is this portion of the Silk Road via Afghanistan to Pakistan that is being referred to in this news item:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-03/16/c_136134436.htm

Pakistan is a nation of just under 202,000,000 in a 2016 census. For Pakistan and China a Free Trade deal between them means this road will be a money road for each nation respectively.