Opinion Editorials

Balochistan was recently in international media, particularly western media for the wrong reason: a sit-in in Gwadar City by angry residents demanding better facilities. Understandably, Balochistan’s southern region stretching towards the western Iranian Sistan Balochistan has always been an arid and underdeveloped piece of contiguous land for decades. However, CPEC…

CPEC projects in the first phase are basically in infrastructure like power stations and transportation and predominantly aimed to improve overall infrastructure quality. Recently, the government has announced that CPEC is entering its next phase, where Special Economic Zones (SEZs) will be established along the CPEC route. It is claimed…

The People’s Republic of China rose to become the second largest economy in the world in just seven decades after its founding. This unprecedented success is inseparable from China’s whole-process people’s democracy. Theoretically, the whole-process people’s democracy includes democratic election, decision-making, management and oversight by the people, which means people’s…

NO breakthrough was expected in the first virtual summit meeting between US President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Nov 15. Their first exchange by video since the advent of the Biden administration lasted three and a half hours. It ranged over all the issues on which the world’s…

Pakistan’s geographical locationa not only makes it strategically relevant but also attracts great power rivalries. Historically, Russians were obsessed to gain access to warm waters of the Arabian Sea through the areas that now form part of Pakistan. However, in the evolved global and regional power matrices, it is China-United…

Pakistan and Germany have just celebrated 70 years of friendship. The relationship between the two countries has been built on the key pillars of economic, social, environment and cultural cooperation. The visit of former president Ayub to Germany in 1961 gave the relationship new impetus, laying the foundation of close…

Pakistani Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar Monday encouraged the Chinese investors to explore more investment opportunities in industrial, agricultural and information technology areas under the umbrella of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). The minister pointed out the three main areas to encourage Chinese enterprises to invest…

The Chinese President XI Jinping during his historical visit to Pakistan in 2014 remarked that the friendship of Pakistan Chinese is based on people to people; the same historical words were uttered by then Chinese leaders who visited Pakistan in 1964 and in 1966 during Field Marshall Ayub Khan era.…

I have made nearly 200 trips to Pakistan, during which I deeply felt the sincere friendship extended by the Pakistani people. Premier Zhou Enlai once said that the Pak-China friendship took root as early as the dawn of history. The time-honored people-to-people cultural exchanges between the two countries can be…

ISLAMABAD: Many people ask if renewable energy is so cheap – 1-2 US cents or at most 4 US cents as opposed to 8-10 US cents for fossil energy along with pollution, why the world does not shift to renewables faster and sooner. The global share of renewable electricity (RE)…