{"id":24052,"date":"2021-12-31T06:23:23","date_gmt":"2021-12-31T06:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/documentary-on-karakoram-highway-to-air-on-ptv\/"},"modified":"2021-12-31T06:23:23","modified_gmt":"2021-12-31T06:23:23","slug":"documentary-on-karakoram-highway-to-air-on-ptv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/?p=24052","title":{"rendered":"Documentary on Karakoram Highway to air on PTV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Federal Minister for Information Fawad Chaudhry recently took to Twitter to announce the telecast of <em>Karakoram Highway \u2014 Where Men and Mountains Meet<\/em>. The documentary will air on PTV and is meant &#8220;to honour and recall the historical predicament&#8221; of constructing the Karakoram Highway.<\/p>\n<p>He shared the poster on Twitter and announced that PTV will telecast the documentary on January 1 at 11:05am. The minister called the documentary a &#8220;tribute to our heroes&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tribute to our Heroes::::: <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/KarakurmHighway?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#KarakurmHighway<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1T3TOWJ8Ip\">pic.twitter.com\/1T3TOWJ8Ip<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ch Fawad Hussain (@fawadchaudhry) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/fawadchaudhry\/status\/1476424025312309251?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 30, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Directed by Zohaib Pervaiz, the documentary has been made by Delirium Productions in association with the Frontier Works Organisation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Karakoram Highway (KKH) \u2014 a 1300km long highway \u2014 [is] a mammoth project which is often regarded as the 8th wonder of the world. It is the emblem of Pak-China friendship, also known as the &#8216;Friendship Highway&#8217;,&#8221; states the official description. &#8220;This herculean task witnessed numerous sacrifices, so much so that a famous proverb &#8216;a life lost every kilometre of the road&#8217; came into being.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The ISPR DG&#8217;s official Facebook account also shared the trailer and details about the documentary. According to the ISPR, it was due to be released on December 18.<\/p>\n<p>The trailer for the film features the Karakoram Mountains and interviews with several men, including Urdu writer Mustansar Hussain Tarrar.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"KKH Documentary Trailer I Where Men And Mountains Meet I 12 December 2021 I ISPR\" width=\"1260\" height=\"709\" data-trx-lazyload-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vK2672fzTFE?start=39&amp;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The documentary is meant &#8220;to honour and recall the historical predicament&#8221; of constructing the Karakoram Highway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":24053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[893],"class_list":["post-24052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-karakoram-highwaykarakoram-highway-where-men-and-mountains-meet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}