Chinese resting in Gilgit | پاکستان میں چائنیز کا قبرستان

In Danyur, on the bank of Gilgit River, there's the Chinese cemetery, a Chinese graveyard. The cemetery is the final resting place of Chinese workers and engineers who died during the construction of the Karakoram Highway in Pakistan in the 1960s and 1970s. The tombstones placed over the graves contain epitaph inscriptions in Chinese characters.
The Karakoram Highway is an international highway which runs across the Karakoram mountain range, through the Khunjerab Pass, connecting China's Xinjiang region with the neighbouring Gilgit-Baltistan territory of Pakistan.
Construction of the highway was carried out jointly between the governments of Pakistan and China from 1966 to 1977. During the construction, approximately 5,000 people are estimated to have died of which nearly a hundred included Chinese workers, mostly in landslides and falls.
The cemetery remains an important visitor attraction in Gilgit.