by Tahir Ali
MINGORA, SWAT, Dec.11 (China Economic Net) - If you are looking for a variety of Chinese goods in northwestern Pakistan, the Mingora bazaar in the Swat district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) is the right place for you. From clothing, footwear, baby toys, watches, cellphones, and their parts to electrical equipment, Mingora’s markets are flooded with quality Chinese goods.
Chinese products recently occupied global markets, trade relations between the people of Swat and the Chinese province of Xinjiang are centuries old as a result of cultural ties.
“The people of Swat valley and Xinjiang have centuries-old cultural and business ties; geographically they are not far from each other, as only Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) lies between them,” Shaukat Sharar, Swat-based architect and historian told China Economic Net (CEN). He said that the people of Swat would traditionally travel through GB to Xinjiang in China to bring goods. According to him, some people from both the region