Washington, July 27 (IANS) The recent surge in militant attacks in Pakistan has heightened concerns for China, which has invested billions of dollars in the South Asian nation since 2015.In recent years, the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) has increasingly targeted Chinese interests, alleging that Beijing is exploiting Balochistan’s natural resources, a report has stated.”For China, Pakistan’s Balochistan represents a massive investment that’s a crucial part of its touted Belt and Road Initiative (…
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New Delhi, July 23 (IANS) Pakistan’s inability to translate massive infrastructure investments under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) into sustained industrial growth and economic competitiveness has emerged as the project’s biggest shortcoming, according to a new analysis.The report cited by Business Recorder argues that the debate surrounding CPEC has become polarized, with one side describing it as a transformational success that modernised Pakistan’s infrastructure and the other b…
Islamabad, July 19 (IANS) Pakistan seems to extend patronage to Islamic State-Khorasan Province (ISKP), also known as ISIS-K or Daesh Khorasan, not due to ideological sympathy, but as an instrument to put pressure on the Taliban and Baloch rebels, a report has detailed. On June 30, reports claimed about cross-border activity between Afghanistan and Pakistan, centred on the alleged hideouts of the ISKP. Such incidents have occurred repeatedly in recent years as Pakistan has created a plan to coun…
Berlin, July 7 (IANS) The Baloch National Movement (BNM) staged a protest in Germany’s Bremen, highlighting the worsening human rights situation in Balochistan and the alleged atrocities committed by the Pakistani authorities.Addressing the gathering, the speakers said that the Pakistani authorities are subjecting the people of Balochistan to large-scale collective punishment. They said that enforced disappearances and custodial killings have become routine, while accusing the authorities of d…
New Delhi, July 4 (IANS) Pakistan’s contrasting responses to upstream water projects by India and China have raised questions about the consistency of Islamabad’s stance on transboundary water security. If upstream interventions are considered a threat to downstream interests, the same principle should apply regardless of whether the upstream country is India or China, a report has highlighted.The muted response to Beijing’s upper Indus dam, alongside persistent objections to Indian projects u…
Quetta, July 1 (IANS) Leading Baloch human rights defender Mir Yar Baloch has slammed China for using Islamabad as a “diplomatic gun” against India over New Delhi’s decision to suspend the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) following the heinous Pahalgam terror attack last year by Pakistan-backed terrorists. Highlighting “realities on the ground”, he also asserted that Pakistan is now only a “guest in Balochistan for a few more years”. The people of Balochistan, he said, have reaffirmed their resolve to …
New Delhi, June 27 (IANS) The proposed China–Myanmar–Bangladesh Economic Corridor (CMBEC) is another attempt at Beijing trying to reshape South Asia’s connectivity trying to strengthen its Belt and Road footprint and direct access to the Indian Ocean.Additionally, alongside Gwadar Port in Pakistan and Hambantota Port in Sri Lanka, Chinese presence in Bangladesh’s Mongla and Chittagong Ports is an effort at furthering Beijing’s “string of pearls” strategy, surrounding India’s maritime sphere….
New Delhi, June 18 (IANS) The China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is pitched as a transformative initiative to build big infrastructure projects with the aim of driving economic growth in Pakistan, but the ground reality is that it is sinking deeper into Beijing’s debt trap and the targeted economic development is nowhere in sight as the country’s poverty and unemployment levels have been on the rise in recent years, an article said. “The most fundamental concern surrounding CPEC is not …
Islamabad/Beijing, June 18 (IANS) Pakistan’s firm support for all of China’s efforts to achieve reunification with Taiwan, including “by every possible means”, is widely viewed as an alarming statement. While US President Donald Trump has repeatedly praised Pakistani Army Chief Asim Munir and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, with Munir’s name frequently featuring in his remarks, Pakistan has simultaneously aligned itself completely with China and endorsed Beijing’s aggressive actions, undermining …
New Delhi, June 11 (IANS) China‑Pakistan Economic Corridor has entered a new phase — dubbed “CPEC 2.0” — that prioritises artificial intelligence, cloud computing and surveillance technologies over the heavy infrastructure projects that defined the first decade of cooperation, a new report has said.The report from Asia Times said Beijing’s push to export AI architectures and “Safe City” surveillance systems to Pakistan is reshaping the partnership from physical connectivity to digi…