China refuses to restore the original route of Sino-Pak corridor

[Pukhtoon]

I cant go through all these pages but for the answer of the Chines interest in the new route can some one post the video of ARY Programme OFF THE RECORD which was on air few days back. In which Khwaja sara asif and in the next day PM ki bati ka yaar Fawad Hasan Fawad participated. There Kashif abbasi asked about the last 300Km .

 

[Kabira]

Yes. It has nothing to do with the corridor in reality. It is simply another project PMLN govt wants Chinese to approve under the umbrella of 'Pak-China Economic Corridor projects.'

Good because motorway between Lahore-Karachi is much needed. In fact it will be motorway between Karachi-Lahore-Islamabad-Peshawar when build.

 

[insight-out]

China-Pakistan investment deals stir up controversy

ISLAMABAD: China is expected to sign a series of mega investment deals this month with Pakistan as part of an effort to revive economic development along the ancient Silk Road.

But objections have come over the path of the vast trade trail with offshoots in Central Asia, the subcontinent, Persia, Arabia and Europe.

Political and environmental concerns over road and rail paths threaten a phase that would flow from Kashgar in China down the Karakoram Pass and into the plains of the Punjab and onto Sindh to end at the Arabian Sea port of Gwadar.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi's visit to Islamabad last month seemed to expedite plans for a trade route called the Pakistan China Economic Corridor with only the paper work left to sign.

But the plans are now under scrutiny over accusations that the government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has secretly changed the route passing through Khyber Pakhtunkha province in favour of his native Punjab province.

"The government has decided to make another route which it says will be temporary,” said Senator Farhatullah Babar from the Pakistan People’s Party. “There is no such thing as a temporary economic project. Once you build an economic project whether it is road, whether it is railways, whether it is the economic zone, once it is built anywhere, it acquires permanency."

China's President Xi Jinping has made a revival of the Silk Route a cornerstone of trade policy.

Islamabad and Beijing share deep military and economic ties, but the ambitious plan has found detractors in Pakistan who allege there is too much secrecy and possible damage to the environment.

"When the planning minister gave a press conference and he was asked where will be the economic zones, he did not give the map. So the government is hiding something and the more it hides the more it creates the suspicions,” said Senator Farhatullah.

Opposition parties staged a walkout from parliament over the issue.

Impoverished Balochistan and militant-plagued Khyber Pakhtunkha, where the intended route was expected to pass through, are fuming. But the planning minister said the anger is misplaced.

"There is some misconception, there is not been even one single iota or centimetre change in the scope or in the route of the China Pakistan Economic Corridor,” said Ashan Iqbal, Pakistan’s minister for planning, development and reforms. “We have designed the China Pakistan Economic Corridor in a manner that it benefits all the provinces in Pakistan."

Domestic politics aside, the lack of details has raised questions.

Former Vice President at the World Bank and senior economist Shahid Javed Burkei said: "It surprises me that a shroud of secrecy surrounds this. It is in the interest of Pakistan to make it as visible as possible. It’s not just an infrastructure project. It’s a project that’s going to establish a number of economic zones along the way.”

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has won credit for completing several large infrastructure projects in Pakistan. But the corridor has the potential to boost business opportunities on a wide scale, keeping it for now a lightning rod on the domestic political scene.

- CNA/xq

 

[Umer Jasim]

Is this project under construction?? or it can faces controversies like Kalabagh Dam??

 

[Dubious]

Expected route

They seem to want to bounce in every province ! It says PM ganja's vision! No idea how it will dominate anything and what does contain India mean?

 

[India defense]

India would never allow any other country to make road in India

 

[singh sahab]

India would never allow any other country to make road in India

Because India has $ to do it herself.

 

[SBD-3]

Is this project under construction?? or it can faces controversies like Kalabagh Dam??

Most of the infrastructure is already in place and there is a difference between this and KBD. In KBD there are three provinces in opposition of Punjab. Here the modified route passes through three provinces i.e.Sindh, Balochistan,Punjab and Hazara. The only problem with some of the members burning here is that it misses the pushtoon dominated areas of KPK. But the money is that of Chinese and if they cant convince the investor. Btw these were the same people yelling on Chinese investment to stay away from KPK and woing to woo western investors in KPK but as it turns out, not many investors are interested in investing in KPK because of still bad (still better than ANP's time but improvement has its reasons) law and order. And whats more ironic is that Law and order is still not in the priorities of PTI led coalition.

 

[SBD-3]

So it is safe to assume that when Chinese source say that there are not interested in CHANGING the route and have agreed to one route and will stick to it, they are referring to the first one.

The media have created such confusion that for many people in public, the second option is the original one and it is PTI and IK who want to get that altered, there are some confusions and many more are being created by hater and supporters of both political parties. It is a shame that a project of such importance is being politicized.

Tu Summarize, it is the first route, as below that is the original one and it is this one that the Chinese have said they are not willing to change.

Personally i think this is the best possible route, in fact, the only option that makes sense. Away from border, providing an alternate route across Pakistan and passing through under developed area with huge potential of growth.

This one will develop afterwards the operationalization. The current route will use already developed infrastructure. Most probably from the funds generated using the operationalized route. Chinese wont risk their energy corridor passing through valnurable areas like Punjgor,DI khan where Talibans,extremists and sepratists can take them out with ease. There will be security infrastructure developed there first, then the route.

 

[Pukhtoon]

Most of the infrastructure is already in place and there is a difference between this and KBD. In KBD there are three provinces in opposition of Punjab. Here the modified route passes through three provinces i.e.Sindh, Balochistan,Punjab and Hazara. The only problem with some of the members burning here is that it misses the pushtoon dominated areas of KPK. But the money is that of Chinese and if they cant convince the investor. Btw these were the same people yelling on Chinese investment to stay away from KPK and woing to woo western investors in KPK but as it turns out, not many investors are interested in investing in KPK because of still bad (still better than ANP's time but improvement has its reasons) law and order. And whats more ironic is that Law and order is still not in the priorities of PTI led coalition.

Burning Mera L*n !! But For us not Lahore is Pakistan while for you and noora ke tatas like u everything is punjab and lahore !! So spare us from your tata chuking of nooras ! Hazara is in US or UK ? Genius ?

 

[Echo_419]

They seem to want to bounce in every province ! It says PM ganja's vision! No idea how it will dominate anything and what does contain India mean?

I fail to see how a economic corridor will be used to contain us & the new route (the one which involves more provinces) is better in my opinion

 

[Dubious]

I fail to see how a economic corridor will be used to contain us & the new route (the one which involves more provinces) is better in my opinion

Hence my question:

what does contain India mean?

 

[SBD-3]

Burning Mera L*n !! But For us not Lahore is Pakistan while for you and noora ke tatas like u everything is punjab and lahore !! So spare us from your tata chuking of nooras ! Hazara is in US or UK ? Genius ?

Bari aag lagi hue hay. If there is a crdibility in KPK govt's word then they should have been able to convince the Chinese.

 

[Pukhtoon]

Bari aag lagi hue hay. If there is a crdibility in KPK govt's word then they should have been able to convince the Chinese.

Khabi aoo na khushboo laga keh bhujane lol

 

[SBD-3]

Khabi aoo na khushboo laga keh bhujane lol

Woh kya kehtay hain "Sarya na kar, dua karya kar".