Exclusive: CPEC master plan revealed

[VCheng]

This is the most interesting and revealing part of this whole report.

Very interesting indeed:

https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/china-to-build-mega-oil-pipeline-from-gwadar-to-kashgar.434652/

https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/gwad...ging-on-world-map-chinese-media.438737/page-5

https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/pakistan-leveraging-us-and-chinas-interest-in-the-region.403986/

 

[Nanga Tarzan]

Very interesting indeed:

https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/china-to-build-mega-oil-pipeline-from-gwadar-to-kashgar.434652/

https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/gwad...ging-on-world-map-chinese-media.438737/page-5

https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/pakistan-leveraging-us-and-chinas-interest-in-the-region.403986/

Why don't you also quote the report which said that 4% of global trade will pass through Gwadar.

 

[VCheng]

Why don't you also quote the report which said that 4% of global trade will pass through Gwadar.

4% is obviously just the start. It will be the "center of world trade":

https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/cpec-centre-of-the-world.447765/

 

[Clutch]

Going through the comments section of the Dawn news article, I have never read so many comments posted by so many Indians on this topic.

Indians commenting on that section is off the carts crazy. They are all going crazy berserk.

Indians know that CPEC is going to change Pakistan forever.... Into an economic power house. Indians will now increase the their terrorism in Pakistan to kill as many innocent women and children they can. Thats what concerns me the most... this CPEC project will be paved with blood sacrificed by innocent civilians.

 

[Kabira]

Why Ihsan Iqbal is not happy with publishing of this plan by Dawn?

Check out his twitter acc. Dawn have gotten hand on old and redundant document written in 2013 or early 2014 going by the fact that they are talking about 12% inflation. Final draft will signed today or tomorrow in China by PM.

Also dawn conclusion is that this is basically like east Indian company take over.

 

[hussain0216]

Going through the comments section of the Dawn news article, I have never read so many comments posted by so many Indians on this topic.

Indians commenting on that section is off the carts crazy. They are all going crazy berserk.

Indians know that CPEC is going to change Pakistan forever.... Into an economic power house. Indians will now increase the their terrorism in Pakistan to kill as many innocent women and children they can. Thats what concerns me the most... this CPEC project will be paved with blood sacrificed by innocent civilians.

They spend their lives on Pakistani sites!

Shameless kaum they are, Pakistani nuclear weapons are essential to ensure their kaum if required is wiped off the face of this world

 

[313ghazi]

I am pleased, but ultimately disappointed.

We can be pleased because our nation will get much needed infrastructure, jobs, development of new markets. For example of the Chinese start using modern farming techniques, these will filter down into our local farming culture. We'll be creating a massive private sector which will ultimately be manned by Pakistani workers. This will lead to a rise in the middle class, which is what is needed to get rid of our corrupt politicians.

I am disappointed though. We are essentially borrowing to pay for the infrastructure, we are swapping raw goods for manufactured products and business opportunities we should have grasped have been taken by Chinese business people. It's the model of a third world economy. Unfortunately that's what we are, a third world country, with a third world leadership class, burdened with first world bills.

Chinese companies will be mining our raw assets, especially stuff like gold. This is the truth wealth, we managed to get rid of Riko and end up opening the doors of exploitation to someone else. In my opinion these things are better in the ground, until you can manage to dig them up and benefit from them yourself.

The farms really annoyed me. China imports lots of food, we should have created state owned farms decades ago and bought at cost produce to the Pakistani domestic market. With cheap food our nutrition levels would be better, we would have less health problems, consumers would have more money to spend on non essential goods which would help the economy and our commercial farmers could focus on exporting food, which would make them richer and bring down the trade defecit. Instead of doing this, we now have Chinese farmers coming in to take advantage whilst we navel gaze.

Pakistan and Pakistani's should not be ungreatful for the support we are getting, but we should be ashamed that we cannot run the basics in our country ourselves.

 

[Great Sachin]

just look at the extent of this project!

but, if everything is to be done and paid for by China, what will our govt be doing? Where will Pakistan's development budget be going(where is it going right now )? every development project is being framed under the umbrella of CPEC, so where is our own budget being spent by our govt?

Pakistan budget to pay Chinese loan interests

 

[Fledgingwings]

 

[Kabira]

Many of CPEC master plan ideas depend on security. Like for example this sound amazing on paper but looks unlikely to be implemented unless BLA is taken care off.

Tourism and recreation
One of the most intriguing chapters in the plan is the one that talks about the development of a “coastal tourism” industry. It speaks of a long belt of coastal enjoyment industry that includes yacht wharfs, cruise homeports, nightlife, city parks, public squares, theaters, golf courses and spas, hot spring hotels and water sports. The belt will run from Keti Bunder to Jiwani, the last habitation before the Iranian border. Then, somewhat disappointingly, it adds that “more work needs to be done” before this vision can be realized.

The plans are laid out in surprising detail. For instance, Gwadar will feature international cruise clubs that “provide marine tourists private rooms that would feel as though they were ‘living in the ocean’”. And just as the feeling sinks in, it goes on to say that “[f]or the development of coastal vacation products, Islamic culture, historical culture, folk culture and marine culture shall all be integrated.” Apparently more work needs to be done here too.

For Ormara, the plan recommends building “unique recreational activities” that would also encourage “the natural, exciting, participatory, sultry, and tempting characteristics” to come through. For Keti Bunder it recommends wildlife sanctuaries, an aquarium and a botanical garden. For Sonmiani, on the eastern edge of Karachi, “projects like a coastal beach, extended greenway, coastal villa, car camp, SPA, beach playground and a seafood street can be developed.”

It is an expansive vision that the plan lays out, and towards the end, it asks for the following: “Make the visa-free tourism possible with China to provide more convenient policy support for Chinese tourists to Pakistan.” There is no mention of a reciprocal arrangement for Pakistani nationals visiting China.

 

[Awan68]

Look at the illustration about made in china, they have not included kashmir in pakistan, how long will we allow these non and anti state actors to be heard from within our own ranks, to be free to walk amongst us as snakes no longer disguised, thier stings openly protruted to hurt the national interest of 200 million people under the cover of freedom of speech when the constitution itself gives national interest precedence over the notorious concept of freedom of speech, this article is directly instigating the people of pakistan against cpec by implying 3-4 times directly that chinese culture will invade the islamic culture of pakistan(a false notion which is enough to charge up 200 million here while in reality chinese have no ideology or culture to spread,their only culture is buisness and mass production and economic interest nothing else), they go on to imply that the chinese will direct and control our media and only their interest will be propogated, this pawn of satan, this dawn news is again openly presenting the narrative of india just as they did with dawn leaks...

 

[The Eagle]

Ahsan Iqbal severely condemns Dawn’s CPEC ‘master plan’ article, terms it Dawn Leaks II

• National

4 HOURS AGO BY PAKISTANTODAY

Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal on Monday has criticised an article published in Dawn claiming to be an “original plan of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC)”.

Furthermore the national daily also claimed that the documents have been made available to the public for the first time. The article claimed to reveal “what Chinese intentions and priorities are in Pakistan for the next decade and a half, details that have not been discussed in public thus far.”

Iqbal, severely condemned the article stating it to be “Dawn Leaks II.” “I am appalled by Dawn Leak II. CPEC long-term plan story based on working documents to distort final draft taken up with NDRC yesterday in Beijing,” the planning minister said in a tweet.

Iqbal went on to add that Dawn had not contacted him or the ministry to confirm the facts. He further stated in a tweet that this is an attempt to defame the CPEC by promoting fears.

Iqbal further mentioned in a tweet that the long-term plan could not have been disclosed by Pakistani government without consulting the Chinese. He called the Dawn story “half cooked” in a race to break the news first.

Pakistan inked new agreements worth nearly $500 million with China on Saturday ahead of Beijing’s international forum on its “Silk Road” trade and infrastructure initiative for Asia, Africa and Europe, the Pakistani government informed. The agreements signed add to the existing $57 billion portfolio already pledged for the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a network of rail, road and energy infrastructure that is part of the wider Chinese project also known as the Belt and Road initiative, or One Belt, One Road.

 

[Sully3]

Anyone else feels Dawn news and Express news post too much anti Pakistan content, just like Geo news and others eventually we will find out that Dawn and Tribune express were receiving massive back handers from India.

Like seriously nearly every international and nations media house sees CPEC as a game changer for Pakistans economy and then you have Dawn news and Express Tribune with their daily anti CPEC article.

I was shocked to see Express Tribune were covering Indias republic day parade with pictures of military equipment on their Facebook page. Is this a pakistani news house or indian ?

 

[RIP Pak LAW]

DAWN has been instrumental in spreading apprehensions against CPEC for the last 2 years. ET and Dawn, both english news media is well backed up by International agencies who are always critical of China so CPEC won't be alien to their digestion. While people here, went crazy after PMLN Govt over Dawn leaks, no one questioned about Dawn's malicious role itself. Dawn needs to be taken to task now.

 

[Taimoor Khan]

Many of CPEC master plan ideas depend on security. Like for example this sound amazing on paper but looks unlikely to be implemented unless BLA is taken care off.

Tourism and recreation
One of the most intriguing chapters in the plan is the one that talks about the development of a “coastal tourism” industry. It speaks of a long belt of coastal enjoyment industry that includes yacht wharfs, cruise homeports, nightlife, city parks, public squares, theaters, golf courses and spas, hot spring hotels and water sports. The belt will run from Keti Bunder to Jiwani, the last habitation before the Iranian border. Then, somewhat disappointingly, it adds that “more work needs to be done” before this vision can be realized.

The plans are laid out in surprising detail. For instance, Gwadar will feature international cruise clubs that “provide marine tourists private rooms that would feel as though they were ‘living in the ocean’”. And just as the feeling sinks in, it goes on to say that “[f]or the development of coastal vacation products, Islamic culture, historical culture, folk culture and marine culture shall all be integrated.” Apparently more work needs to be done here too.

For Ormara, the plan recommends building “unique recreational activities” that would also encourage “the natural, exciting, participatory, sultry, and tempting characteristics” to come through. For Keti Bunder it recommends wildlife sanctuaries, an aquarium and a botanical garden. For Sonmiani, on the eastern edge of Karachi, “projects like a coastal beach, extended greenway, coastal villa, car camp, SPA, beach playground and a seafood street can be developed.”

It is an expansive vision that the plan lays out, and towards the end, it asks for the following: “Make the visa-free tourism possible with China to provide more convenient policy support for Chinese tourists to Pakistan.” There is no mention of a reciprocal arrangement for Pakistani nationals visiting China.

That is the most eye catching bit. If implemented, this will leave Dubai and other Asian tourists destination in dust. The Baluchistan coast is remarkable and ideal for those who seek sun, sand, waves and warm waters with not a single cloud in the sky 365 days in the year.