Pakistan all set to ink $30 billions investment deals, largest ever in the history of Pakistan

[Menace2Society]

You don't need a lot of money for a fully functional industrial park generating profits and exports.

 

[Sanchez]

CPEC is an infrastructure development. IK made it clear that he wanted China to commit on buziness development around CPEC. Basically if you have improved roads and electricity, you need buzinesses to make use of it to bring jobs in and to make profits for the country.

 

[VCheng]

Gotta love dem MOUs!

Learned, unbiased members can maybe shed some light on what % MOU realisation Pakistan has achieved in the past and recent years. ...because I will be attacked in various ways if I do so

Oh hush now. Things will be different in Der Neu Pakistan, don'tcha know? Let us just rejoice in the good news for now. (Until reality comes a-calling.)

Signing MoUs are easy. Realising them is a different story altogether.

Please see the above.

 

[SQ8]

Indeed, software is just as important as the hardware...but I actually have hope for Pakistan and the region more generally...as a more "adapt or perish" looming threshold catches up with us all (the world "average" is charging ahead and this will add an inevitable impetus I feel and hope).

As I repeat often, language is the true binder and it will show up(has) even in India and Pakistan.
50 years from now the resource scramble will leave only the strongest with the common language and heritage surviving.

 

[Pakistansdefender]

Inshallah.
Great news. Hope to see it materialize soon.

 

[aziqbal]

Good news

keep good ties with these countries and they can benefit us

China is good but raw cash can only come from these countries who have deep pockets

lets they follow through with them whats the details on these investments ?

 

[ziaulislam]

Isn't CPEC investment even larger than this?

Considered as govt to govt deals cpec size invested has still not crossed 30b yet

MOUs can be squashed any time by poor policies ..let wait and see..ishaq dar squashed the potential we had in 2016

 

[PAKISTANFOREVER]

Bollywood is a household name in Pakistan. And even considering absolute numbers, there are more Pakistanis defecating in the open today than Indians.

Any evidence or links to your claims? If not then you are lying and making it all up.

 

[randomradio]

As I repeat often, language is the true binder and it will show up(has) even in India and Pakistan.
50 years from now the resource scramble will leave only the strongest with the common language and heritage surviving.

You speak as though humans are some sort of primitive pack animals.

Culture and tolerance are the true binder, not language. We already see how 'united' blacks and whites in the US really are, even with a common language and religion.

Different people who see the big picture and keep their petty differences aside will be the real winners.

 

[ziaulislam]

first phase of CPEC almost completed, 11000MW of Cheap coal and gas power, Karachi To Peshawar and other Motorways and highways. now working on upgrading rail network, SEZs and further investment, Tech transfer etc.

As for realization of MoUs, i think it will be much better then previous govts.

Well coal could have been much cheaper than we got...
Hydro is above average first 10 years(8-9 cents) given water charges of 1.5 cents and govt insistenace on 25 years BOT model rather than stretched out 40 yrs model
Anything above 8 cents in my opinion is expensive
On average coal has been 8 cents vs world average of 6 cents and hydro 8 cents first 10yrs vs average of 6cents (partly due to 1.5 cents water charges)

Many of them (almost all of energy projects and some road projects) are “corporate loans” i.e; loans taken from Chinese banks by consortiums/JV’s of Chinese and Pakistanj companies. So, they are the one to pay it back, not government of Pakistan. Similarly, some prt is government loan which government of Pakistan will payback (about 6 billion dollars), also all loans for development kf gawadr are interest free (zero interest rate). Other are direct FDI’s. But if you see, even those corporate loans taken by Chinese Pak JV’s are in a sense FDI for Pakistan government.

Right and wrong ..
Wrong because ultimately they remit dollars and you need to cover that with something ..

E.g turkey has very limited govt debt but huge private debt that caused the recent crisis of foreign exchange

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I think cpec was poorly negotiated in power sector due to corruption of Pakistani joint ventures..we gave return of around 17-20% vs average return of 15% before and 12% world aveegae average

But yes Pakistan has poor rating and most people wont invest but we never tried open bidding so its just a guess

 

[randomradio]

Any evidence or links to your claims? If not then you are lying and making it all up.

http://swachhbharatmission.gov.in/sbmcms/index.htm
98.49% of the population have access to toilets as of today. That's less than 20 million people.

https://dailytimes.com.pk/145728/79m-pakistanis-still-lack-decent-toilet-report/
21.8m people in Pakistan still defecate in the open

 

[PAKISTANFOREVER]

http://swachhbharatmission.gov.in/sbmcms/index.htm
98.49% of the population have access to toilets as of today. That's less than 20 million people.

https://dailytimes.com.pk/145728/79m-pakistanis-still-lack-decent-toilet-report/
21.8m people in Pakistan still defecate in the open

The first source/link is indian therefore it is not a reliable or an honest source. Do you have compelling, reliable, honest and genuine sources to back up your claims? Also the 1st link looks like a gimmick, do you have a genuine article?

 

[JohnWick]

http://swachhbharatmission.gov.in/sbmcms/index.htm
98.49% of the population have access to toilets as of today. That's less than 20 million people.

https://dailytimes.com.pk/145728/79m-pakistanis-still-lack-decent-toilet-report/
21.8m people in Pakistan still defecate in the open

Oh really! This is a fake Indian source.

 

[313ghazi]

Saudi Arabia is planing to invest 500 billions in next 3 to 5 years, Saudi investment in Pakistan is penuts compare to that. We should ask ourselves why Saudi Arabia is not willing to invest more?

Why the sense of entitlement? Saudi is free to invest/not invest wherever it wants.

The only people responsible for wealth generation in Pakistan are Pakistanis.

 

[ziaulislam]

Saudi Arabia is planing to invest 500 billions in next 3 to 5 years, Saudi investment in Pakistan is penuts compare to that. We should ask ourselves why Saudi Arabia is not willing to invest more?

Because our rating is BBB-, vs BB In India ...investment in Pakistan is considered ultra high risk..higher than bangaldesh and much higher than India ..thanks to short sigjted political motivated mis management of the economy