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...
declaring it a waste of resources and a hurdle in the speedy implementation of the CPEC. Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal’s first briefing on the state of CPEC blew the lid off the claims of the previous government that everything was fine as ...
The sun of 2023 has emerged with new hops and challenges for China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) in the backdrop of uncapping China’s zero covid policy, fresh commitments to pump up more Chinese investment, rollout of new three CPEC corridors, resumption of cultural exchange programs, ...
Writing in June 2018, the International Crisis Group warned of the potential flashpoints provoked by the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC): “Pakistani leaders say the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, launched in 2015, is a ‘game changer’ for the country’s ailing economy. But opaque ...
(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...
Citing the Lahore Orange Line Metro project, Haque said that the project, the first mass-transit project of its kind in Pakistan which wa s launched in October, would provide efficient and affordable transport services to the 10 million residents of Lahore. ...
A cargo train is launched to operate on the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) line constructed by the China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC) and financed by the Chinese government in Kenya's coastal city of Mombasa, May 30, 2017. /VCG Photo ...
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...
Launched in 2013, CPEC, a flagship project of the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative, is a corridor linking the Gwadar Port in southwest Pakistan's Balochistan province with Kashgar in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, which highlights energy, transport, and industrial coopera...