The Pakistan-China Fiber Optic Project is an 820 kilometer long optical fiber cable connecting Pakistan and China; it was laid down between the Khunjerab Pass on the China-Pakistan border and the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi. is selected to implement the project. Inaugurated in July 2018, the cable was constructed as part of the. On the sidelines of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, Federal Minister for IT and Telecommunication, Shaza Fatima Khawaja, held a strategic meeting with senior delegates from PeaceCable International Network, China. An extension of China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), it transcends physical trade corridors to forge interlinked digital environments: cross-border fibre-optic networks, e-commerce platforms, satellite links, and data centres.
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