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Why Pakistan Is Staying Out of Yemen "Pakistan’s decision not to join the Saudi-led intervention against Houthi rebels in Yemen may signal a serious cooling in relations between Islamabad and Riyadh." Louis Ritzinger April 27, 2015 On March 25, a Saudi-led coalition of ten Arab states began...

btw in the document which i have got, this table is followed by individual project details. interestingly, there is no mention of 'Gaddani power park' and 'transmission line 1 & 2.' Last time what i heard from the planning commission people was that the Chinese are not interested in the Gaddani...

These are from the government documents prepared before the Chinese visit. This is the list of all the projects under the CPEC.

no idea.. but Ahsan Iqbal's statement is giving the impression that its not the Federal Government borrowing money for Orange line but the Punjab govt. I hope im right in my understanding.

it seems 'Orange line' is being funded by a loan agreement between Punjab Govt and Chinese govt. If this is so then atleast one of my reservation stands removed.

By doing this we are going all the way back to Musharraf time which is when investment was first made in Gwadar. From what i can recall, Chinese invested $250million back then. Likewise, an agreement of $350million was signed between China and Pakistan to develop Saindak. There is little else i...

the list of agreed projects are mentioned here: Pakistan has to keep pace with China on economic corridor: Iqbal - Pakistan - DAWN.COM

Well if i take your argument of many different set of projects being clubbed together under one umbrella, which makes sense, then there is very little left for the CPEC in the recently signed agreement. You will have to agree with me that Baluchistan is getting nothing here. To an extent, same...

so this what i get from the link provided... I have only included the projects on which proper agreements have been signed. No MOUs or Cooperation stuff is included in this list. KPK is getting $2.7 billion whereas Balochistan only gets peanuts amounting to only $0.37 billion. All else goes to...

given my total ignorance, let me ask a question: are there any changes in the frame for block 2? if not, does PAC foresee any such changes in the future or are they happy with it?

loool idk depends how Hafeez Pirzada questions them.

Rigging probe: PTI submits list of 13 witnesses before judicial commission By Hasnaat Malik Published: April 22, 2015 31SHARES...

i was in planning commission and did all the quantitative analysis for the monetization of cars at the Federal Level. Its worth the effort (atleast on paper), since officers abuse their powers and tend to use more than one car. Therefore, in principle, monetization saves a lot of money. But im...

well i wont go that far. The problem is that no federal party was ever based in KPK as such. Traditional mainstream parties never had a big stake in small provinces. Regional parties can only go to a small extent. Its good that PTI got its start from KPK. This has given KPK a voice at the...

Kashgar-Gwadar trade corridor: Chief minister takes firm stance on changes in route By Manzoor Ali Published: April 23, 2015 94SHARES...

some transparency on part of the government will solve the whole mess.... smaller provinces have the right to be skeptical/insecure given the lack of info

The problem is that PMLN has not shared the details of the agreements.. Which road projects are being financed first? At what cost are the Chinese giving this loan? Which part of the loan is provincial and which part is federal? Except for these maps, nothing is known. All we hear is some odd...

its seems Pak Business Express has taught the Railway people how to do business. But ideally, ill prefer more private sector initiatives rather than govt. nonetheless its a good initiative.

These are the typical characteristics of the secularists i encounter in pakistan. I take them as 'extremists' since the non-extremists on both sides are normally less visible and more accommodative in their discussions. overall impact is difficult to quantify... the cost of these 'ills' is very...