And Pakistan has to learn to stop signing such stupid deals with 20% RoR in the first place. Yes - we should expect better of China interms of how it treats Pakistan interms of investments - but also Pakistan has to develop some common sense aswell.
The Chinese are brutal over anything that involves money - completely brutal and they take no prisoners when it comes to money. This is not an unknown. I have interacted with many large Chinese companies who only ever want to be paid in USD Dollars - and they point blank refuse to take their own local currency EVER for payment of the provision of products or services ...
I am confused
We already know this
Its matter of swiss and england bank accounts
Ironically we know this too..!!
But its matter of love..!
In love of (shareefs & zardaris & our "bradery" politicans) we are okay with it..
Afterall, some arab princess or american(Imf) will come to save us
Because the way we are signing deals with Chinese companies and banks on power projects is not feasible and will create more problems for us. A fix high Rate of return and huge guarantees along with high unit price even for coal and hydro..... You see the problem ?
We need to shift to PPP and BOT based projects. The whole CPEC need to follow these delivery systems. Ab bas dargaahy or mazaaraat he reh Gaye Hy guarantee rakny Kay lye
I disagree
BOT Purpose sounds good but the price is TOO high
E.g hydro is at 8 cents for BOT purpose
I would rather pay 5 cents for ever rather then BOT 8 cents for 30 yrs
It has to be competitive bidding end of story
WB AB funded projected are at 4-5 cents
Even self funded bond projects will be around 6-7 cents
WAPDA has learned and is funding bhasha and munda it self
If we could have just done it in 2008 we wouldnot have been in this mess but..well cpec i guess the bigger the better