New road network under CPEC to improve access to Iran Top Story By News Desk ISLAMABAD: China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) Authority Chairman Lt-Gen (retd) Asim Saleem Bajwa on Sunday said work on the 103-kilometre Nokundi-Mashkhel road, which will improve access to Iran, has begun. In a tweet, Bajwa said a detailed design of another 200-km road — the Mashkhel-Panjgur Road — was also in process. He said the entire remote region of Balochistan would be opened by connecting N-40 with N-85 and M-8 — the western route of CPEC —linking Chagai-Nokundi sector with Gwadar. The CPEC Authority chairman said Gwadar port is becoming a hub of economic activities under CPEC.