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The Chinese have made it clear that they will spare no efforts or tolerate any opposition to make the CPEC a success

As experiences go, the short time I spent in the Karakoram Highway (KKH) flight (Four Army Aviation Squadron) under the command of Major (later Major General) H U K Niazi, in the high mountains in 1970, is one that far surpassed my expectations and lives on in my memory for more reasons than one. Piloting an Aloutte-3, the BMW of the air at that time, the sheer beauty of the landscape was breathtaking.