Please check the map for the border China shares with Afghanistan & the distance from the Chinese border with Afghanistan to the border Gilgit agency shares with the Wakhan Corridor and let me know how is outflanking possible without the Chinese entering the Wakhan.That's how China supplied the Mujahideen during the Soviet occupation.The so called Northern Areas specifically Gilgit Agency shares a 105 km long boundary with the Wakhan Corridor. There are motorable roads there. These roads may not be in the best conditions or even all weather but there's trade happening thru it though the preferred area to access the Wakhan is thru Chitral. If we happen to reach as far as the Afghan border thru Gilgit, we might as well factor in Chitral as well coz it's adjoining the Gilgit Agency.Besides, it's the air corridor which will grant us maneuverability and that where my emphasis was.