We must have a national day to honor the martyrs of KKH highway!
If people who know about it, during their trip to Gilgit Baltistan, visit the place and lay a flower, as well as say a prayer that could also lift the spirits of the local caretakers . Pakistan connecting with central asian muslims Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uyghurs, thriving towns like Sost [now a dry port, major trading hub] this would've been a dream, f not for these workers.
I doubt most Pakistanis are even aware of it, there needs to be an awareness campaign by both Pak govt. and Chinese mission about this memorial. This memorial is'nt just the corpses that lay there but 100s of Chinese and Pakistani workers, who fell 100s of feet below and were never recovered, many lives lost are not on record. 80 Chinese Muslim workers [Hui, Uyghur, Donxiang, etc..] of Xinjiang province are also buried there.
There have been individuals of foreign nations like Turkish person posthumously awarded civilian honor in 2007 by Pres. Musharraf, who died helping Pak in relief efforts in 2005. But don't know anyone else in Pakistani history, a foreign nation sacrificed its nationals for helping Pakistan. It was Pak-China joint national interest, which in turn benefit Pakistan the most.
During Xi Jinping trip to Pakistan, Many in western media, alongwith some of our media mocked the tagline 'Pak-China friendship, Higher than the mountains and deeper than the ocean' as it appeared on media/
This tagline should be put in a plaque outside this memorial to show the world the living proof, to make them understand what Pak-China ties withstood and accomplished.
