Opinion Editorials

The Pakistan-China partnership is unparalleled among inter-state relations. The history of our friendship is a unique account of unwavering mutual support, mutual trust and mutual respect. Nurtured by successive generations of our leadership and peoples across seven decades, this iron-brotherhood has blossomed into a strong and vibrant All-Weather Strategic Cooperative…

China and Pakistan – two very immediate and close neighbors having the brotherly relationship of seven decades – have transformed the potential of unique partnership under the umbrella of splendid diplomacy. In the journey of bilateral relationship spanning around the meaningful and productive benefits, both nations are marching ahead towards…

The Communist Party of China (CPC) has become the world’s largest ruling party with global influence. Imagine how it develops from a party of 50 members to more than 95 million today. For anyone who wants to know the secrets, one should study carefully on the Sixth Plenary Session of…

ISLAMABAD: The strategic shift from geo-politics to geo-economics is a welcome initiative on the part of Pakistan government. In a world where the relative position of a nation is determined primarily by its economic strength, the focus on geo-economics embodies a logical response to the national and international challenges. Geography…

The Gwadar Port is viewed as a flagship project under the umbrella of the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The development of Gwadar Port, located in Southwestern Pakistan is opening avenues for global prosperity and regional connectivity. China has been successfully implementing its…

In a bid to ramp up efforts for enhanced agricultural cooperation between Pakistan and China under Phase-II of the golden CPEC project, another milestone progress has finally taken shape in the conceptual launch of Pakistan China Friendship Farm. After coming into existence, Pakistan China Friendship Farm has set the tone…

As work on Western alignment of China Pakistan Economic Corridor is in full swing, the incumbent government has initiated eleven new road projects under the CPEC. According to official sources in the CPEC Authority, two new projects worth 314 billion rupees were added to the CPEC in the meeting of…

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…