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Iran hosts 18-nation intl Silk Route event
Iran hosts 18-nation intl Silk Route event
IslamabadThe 3rd 2000-year old global Silk Route conference drawing techno-business participation from over eighteen nations kicked off in Tabriz/Iran on Saturday for two days. The conference will, reports say, concentrate on how to turn the oldest Silk Route/Road into an international trading artery, networking a large string of nations into the lucrative transnational commercial enterprise.
Having a length of more than 7000 long kilometer the Silk Road issues forth from the oldest Chinese commerce centers of Luoyang and Xian, furrowing further across mineral treasures of central Asia onward to central European markets. Its Kashmir portion starts from Srinagar (IHK) to the Neelum Valley (AJK) via Gurez Valley (the site of controversial Kishanganga hydro project) going north across Gilgit, and finally merging into the Silk Route. High strength horses and mules used to be the main means of Kashmiri products as feeder to the Silk Road trade, especially the costliest pashmina a symol of kingly status. All countries along this thousands-of-kilometers route by virtue of connective continental trade form one community of Silk Route nations with hundreds of dumping/residential inns all along from Kashmir to China to Central Asia terminating in central Europe embracing Istanbul/Turkey as well in the way.
Iran hosts 18-nation intl Silk Route event
IslamabadThe 3rd 2000-year old global Silk Route conference drawing techno-business participation from over eighteen nations kicked off in Tabriz/Iran on Saturday for two days. The conference will, reports say, concentrate on how to turn the oldest Silk Route/Road into an international trading artery, networking a large string of nations into the lucrative transnational commercial enterprise.
Having a length of more than 7000 long kilometer the Silk Road issues forth from the oldest Chinese commerce centers of Luoyang and Xian, furrowing further across mineral treasures of central Asia onward to central European markets. Its Kashmir portion starts from Srinagar (IHK) to the Neelum Valley (AJK) via Gurez Valley (the site of controversial Kishanganga hydro project) going north across Gilgit, and finally merging into the Silk Route. High strength horses and mules used to be the main means of Kashmiri products as feeder to the Silk Road trade, especially the costliest pashmina a symol of kingly status. All countries along this thousands-of-kilometers route by virtue of connective continental trade form one community of Silk Route nations with hundreds of dumping/residential inns all along from Kashmir to China to Central Asia terminating in central Europe embracing Istanbul/Turkey as well in the way.
