The China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is a project of, by, and for Pakistan's elites which completely lacks local ownership, says a researcher based in Brussels.

CPEC project for Pakistan's elites, lack local leadership: Researcher

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has admitted that seventy per cent of Balochistan is impoverished at the National Minority Day event on Monday. "Balochistan is impoverished," the Pakistan prime minister said, adding, "Pakistan has always neglected the region.

Balochistan is impoverished, Pak has always neglected it, admits PM Imran at National Minority Day event

New Delhi’s strategy of prioritising BIMSTEC over SAARC, if only to isolate Pakistan and its China connection, has not deterred Beijing from stepping up its overtures to India’s other neighbours.

WION Edit: SAARC versus BIMSTEC versus BCIM

WION Edit: SAARC vs BIMSTEC vs BCIM

India refuses to endorse China's connectivity programme. Bishkek declaration mentions only 6 members backing BRI. BRI is China's infrastructural Belt & Road Initiative. CPEC passes through Pakistan occupied Kashmir.

SCO Summit 2019: India has refused to endorse China's BRI

Pakistan PM Imran Khan addressing the SCO summit leaders in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan said that his country was ready to share its "experience and expertise in counter-terrorism.

Pak among few countries to have successfully turned the tide against terrorism: PM Imran Khan at SCO summit

The Pakistan Army will raise another division-size special force to protect Chinese nationals and projects under the CPEC, military spokesman Major General Asif Ghafoor has said, days after the brazen terror attack on a luxury hotel in Balochistan.

Pakistan Army to raise another division to protect CPEC projects, Chinese nationals

People and the media in Pakistan are "scared" of speaking against the multi-billion-dollar China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) as those critical of it are being suppressed, treated as anti-national or branded as terrorists, a former official in the Obama administration has told US lawmakers.

Pakistan media and people scared of speaking against CPEC, US lawmakers told

An attack on a luxury hotel in the southwestern city of Gwadar was a bid to "sabotage prosperity", Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan said Sunday, as police confirmed all the attackers had been killed.

Pakistan PM Imran Khan slams hotel attack as bid to damage economy

Even as China increases its presence in Pakistan through China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) that crosses the south-Asian country and gives China crucial connectivity to West Asia, it is Islamabad that could be in the receiving end.

China's omnipresence in Pakistan increases 

By Nafis Alam The US has unnerved the world oil market by ramping up the pressure in its long-running dispute with Iran. It has announced that, after May 1, it won’t renew the exemptions given to eight countries that enable them to buy Iranian oil.

Donald Trump’s crackdown on Iran’s oil exports could backfire badly – with serious risks to global economy

A Chinese man was found dead in a stormwater drain in Islamabad, said Pakistan police on Friday. The man, who has been identified as Li Jinqiang, had arrived in Pakistan on April 13 and had gone out to buy medicine.

Chinese national found dead in Pakistan

China said on Friday it is ready to hold a Wuhan-style summit meeting with India this year to improve ties, not with standing the differences over the trillion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative in which the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is a flagship project.

China : China ready for Wuhan-style summit meet with India despite differences over BRI

The police in China have ramped up efforts to close down illegal marriage centres and brokers amid complaints of trafficking of Pakistani women to China, who were lured with fake marriages.

How CPEC is used to traffick young Pakistani women to China

China on Monday refuted criticism that the $60 billion CPEC has intensified Pakistan's economic risks, saying that less than 20 per cent of the current projects under the initiative is using Chinese loans.

China denies CPEC intensified Pakistan's economic risks

Gravitas: Does Imran Khan back Chinese investments?

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Gravitas: Did Pakistan steal Chinese cash?

Many have framed the battle lines in the geopolitics of the emerging new world order as the 21st century’s Great Game. It’s a game that aims to shape the creation of a new Eurasia-centred world, built on the likely fusion of Europe and Asia into what former Portuguese Europe minister Bruno Macaes calls a “supercontinent.

The 21st century's Great Game pits world into two camps competing for influence

Recent Chinese pressure on Myanmar to approve a controversial dam project and the arrest in recent days in Kazakhstan of a human rights activist suggest that China in a seemingly tone-deaf pursuit of its interests is forcing governments to choose between heeding increasingly anti-Chinese public sentiment and pleasing Beijing to ensure continued political and economic support.

Chinese pressure tactics put countries between a rock and a hard place

Pakistan is preparing to welcome Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for a state visit over the weekend, the foreign ministry confirmed Wednesday, as Islamabad hopes to sign various investment deals to prop up its slumping economy.

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to visit cash-strapped Pakistan on February 16

The Pakistan government has decided to shelve a major coal-based power plant project under the $60 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor(CPEC), citing sufficient generation capacity already lined up for the next few years.

Pakistan to pull out of major CPEC power plant project: Report

China factor With the advent of US-China trade war and reset of China-India relations with their informal summit at Wuhan, at the relations between the two countries seem to be getting better than the previous years when bitterness between both countries over Doklam crisis had touched a new height.

What are India’s security challenges in 2019

China has astounded the world with the speed and scale of its creation of artificial islands and military infrastructure in the South China Sea. The first Chinese dredger initiated land reclamation in December 2013.

China’s expansionism in South China Sea impinges on India’s interests

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