FM Qureshi invites SCO member states to join CPEC

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik – 14th September, 2020): Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said in an exclusive interview with Sputnik that he had offered members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) to invest in the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), noting that the project promises many-fold rise in trade to the Central Asian republics.

According to the minister, the project was a game changer that would benefit not only China and Pakistan, but the entire region.

“I think there are great opportunities. All along the economic corridor, there are special economic zones that are being set up and even in the SCO CFM [Council of Foreign Ministers] Meeting I proposed to all member states that they are welcome to come and invest, come and see what opportunities exist.

And with the development of the deep sea Gwadar port the entire region, especially the land-locked Central Asia republics stand to gain. Their trade can go up many-fold and they would have the shortest route to the wider world,” Qureshi said after the meeting among the SCO foreign ministers.

The CPEC is a $46 billion-worth infrastructure project funded by China that aims to increase the region’s integrity by connecting the Pakistani port city of Gwadar and China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region via transportation routes.

September 15, 2020: Gwadar seaport has been got surrounded with posters and billboards, reflecting the Sino-Pak peoples’ love and deep affection, says a report published by Gwadar Pro on Monday.

The posters around the port are nothing but beautiful sceneries, carrying a part of the memory of every “Gwadar people”.
The report says, Gwadar Port is not a very built-up area and one look around, they are many of the unremarkable buildings are carefully plastered with “Chicken Soup for the Soul” posters on the walls. These posters seem to be around everybody.

There are printed on the wall, painted on the billboard, printed on the steps of the parterre, and printed on the steel tube roadside.
The author Chen FanIn stated that he probably found 50 “Chicken Soup for the Soul” posters printed on less than 10 buildings in Gwadar Port. Some of them are proverbs, some are adages and some are catch phrases to enjoy.

Lingering to observer these posters, one can feel the sincerity, passion of the Gwadar Port. One can tell that they are taking it as their home and are sparing no efforts in building this shinning star. The biggest poster situated on the main road leading to Gwadar Port. That inscribed with “The flower’s every inch; Please see; Please love; Please care by Zhang Yanmei” (located at the Business Center of China Communication Construction Company).

Gwadar Port security checkpoint is the most occupied place with 36 posters. Port House, the place where the staff form China Overseas Ports Holding Company Pakistan are living, is painted with some posters, too.“China and Pakistan friendship is deep as the depth of pacific and Atlantic oceans.”