Opinion Editorials

The Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China has attracted widespread attention and is of great significance. Many Pakistani friends care about the implications of this meeting on China-Pakistan cooperation and how Pakistan will benefit from China’s high-quality development process. I would like…

The first unit of the Suki Kinari Hydropower project, one of the many power projects being built by China in Mansehra, was connected to the national grid in the middle of last month, marking yet another milestone in the bilateral economic cooperation under the framework of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor…

KARACHI: China and Pakistan are redefining their ties. The consideration at the highest political, military and institutional level to ensure that the all-weather friendship flourishes is its strength. This is, perhaps, one of the rare examples in the Westphalian context that the state-centrism is indifferent of political swings, and the…

In recent months, the term “new quality productive forces” has sparked intense discussions both in China and globally. The concept was first put forward by President Xi Jinping during his inspection tour in China’s northeast Heilongjiang Province in September 2023, emphasizing the integration of scientific and technological innovation resources to…

The Republic of Kazakhstan has opened doors for the expansion of trade with Pakistan that will further connect them to the glob­al market and unlock opportunities for both. Kazakhstan, a sig­nificant linchpin of China’s BRI borders Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan to the South, China to the East, and Russia to…

It was in 2013 that Chinese President Xi Jinping unveiled two highly ambitious international development programmes, the ‘Silk Road Economic Belt’, which he announced during his visit to Kazakhstan in September, and the ‘21st Century Maritime Silk Road Development Strategy’, announced a month later in Indonesia. Jointly, they were termed…

Recently, China said it is ready to work with Paki­stan to upgrade the China-Pakistan Economic Corri­dor (CPEC) for a more shared future in the new era. Caretaker PM Kakar said after having achieved the first phase of CPEC, Pakistan is benefitting from its ear­ly harvest projects while remaining engaged with…

As the year 2024 unfolds, the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor emerges as a key driver of transformative and all-round developments in Pakistan, with several groundbreaking initiatives poised to redefine a fresh face of progress and growth. A highlight among these is the Mainline-I (ML-I) project, set to commence early in the…

Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong of China is in Islamabad to attend the 4th meeting of the CPEC-Joint Working Group on International Cooperation and Coordination marks a significant milestone in the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) initiative. Co-chaired by Pakistan’s Foreign Secretary Muhammad Syrus Sajjad Qazi, this meeting is set to…

In the Central Conference on China’s Foreign Affairs held in Beijing on December 27-28, 2023, President Xi Jinping delivered a keynote speech in which he systematically reviewed the historic achievements and valuable experience of major-country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics in the new era, gave a profound exposition on the international…