When CPEC was launched in 2013, Pakistan was grappling with an unprecedented power shortage, experiencing up to 18 hours of load shedding and a deteriorating law-and-order situation. Despite these challenges, China made significant investments in Pakistan, signaling to the world its belief in the ...
Addressing the event, Jauhar Saleem, the president of the think tank, said that when CPEC was launched in 2013, it was understood that the initiative would involve new loans, as this development model is widely used globally. He emphasized the need to showcase CPEC's contributions to Pakista...
althoughrenewable energymade up only a fraction of the new energy projects, the country’s firstsolar powerplant was inaugurated in May 2015. The Orange Line Metro Train system inLahore, launched in October 2020 and the first of its kind in the country, was the most lauded urban project to...
Launched in 2013, the CPEC, a flagship project of the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative, is a corridor linking the Gwadar port in southwestern Pakistan with Kashgar in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, which highlights energy, transport and industrial cooperation....
Launched in 2015, CPEC is the flagship project of BRI. Declared by China’s President Xi as ‘the project of the century’, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) will deliver an estimated $5 trillion worth of investment into the infrastructure of 52 countries. BRI will reinvigorate the old ...
The project, which was launched in 2020, is expected to be completed by December 2022. One out of six medical blocks has been completed. Under the proposed project remaining medical blocks, nursing and paramedical institutes, medical college, central laboratory, and other allied facilities would be...
A Chinese-funded primary school in Gwadar’s Faqeer Colony was completed in September 2016. (PHOTO: XINHUA) By Staff Reporters Ten years after the launch of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), the Gwadar Port has been fully operational and 14 energy projects along ...
Launched on 1st October 2009, under the Chairmanship of Senator Mushahid Hussain, Pakistan-China Institute (PCI) is the first of its kind non-governmental, non-partisan and non-political think-tank. PCI endeavors to be the principal non-governmental platform to promote people to people ties betw...
(CPEC) is an example for the rest of the world. CPEC is one out of six planned corridors under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) launched by China in 2013, said Zamir Ahmed Awan, professor at the National University of Sciences and Technology in Islamabad, Pakistan in his article...
The Chinese agreed to invest in this project with the first phase of the development plan starting in 2002. In 2007 the construction of the first phase was completed and on 15th March 2008 Gwadar Port was launched with the arrival of 70,000 tonnes of cargo (Pourtajrish, 2018). The Nation...