Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf proposed building an oil and gas pipeline to China during talks with Chinese leader Hu Jintao, the China Daily newspaper said on Monday according to RIA Novosti.
The Pakistani president said that a pipeline would significantly shorten the route of China's energy supplies from the Gulf. Oil and gas are currently being shipped to China along the Indian coast and through the Malacca Straits.
He added that a railway along the Karakoram Highway, linking China and Pakistan should also be built.
"If we can supplement this (the Karakoram Highway) with a rail link, and also maybe an oil and gas pipeline link; and then you take the Central Asian republics with that, the whole area will open out through Pakistan to the rest of the world," the newspaper quoted Musharraf as saying.