Opinion Editorials

Today marks 69 years of our diplomatic relations with China. In these 69 years, the ‘all-weather’ comprehensive, strategic partnership has achieved many milestones and has emerged as a model diplomatic relationship which carries extraordinary goodwill amongst the people of Pakistan for China and vice versa. The Pakistan-China relationship is above…

Strategic relationships at international level are always based on mutual interests with no permanent friends/adversaries and are developed and manipulated by stronger states, like a chess game, using smaller or weaker states as the chess pieces. The weaker states are manipulated through hijacked political systems, buying out the influencers and…

ISLAMABAD: China is likely to take more aggressive steps to support growth, after its economy shrank 6.8% in the first quarter of 2020, and to counter the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. This is its first contraction since quarterly records began in 1992. Many economists believe that real job losses…

Despite the huge impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the Pakistani economy, the volume of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Pakistan has maintained an upward trend. In recent years, Pakistan has promulgated a series of new policies and taken measures to continuously improve the investment environment and encourage foreign investment,…

Landlockedness is inherent economic limitation denoting lack of access to sea. It is a key challenge faced by the Central Asia Republics (CARs) of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. Uzbekistan is, in fact, doubly landlocked for being with landlocked neighbors. Such countries bear high transportation and transit cost for…

DESPITE hue and cry of most of the western countries as well as international media outlets, the caravan of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is gradually embarking towards its final destination of completion and optimal utilization in the country. Even Coronavirus (COVID-19) could not produce any serious bad effect on its…

China and Pakistan unite to overcome difficulties Consul General of People’s Republic of China in Lahore To date, over 2 million people worldwide are infected with COVID-19, bringing a formidable challenge to the global public health security and posing enormous threat to lives and health. Since March, COVID-19 has already…

World Economic Outlook report by IMF stated that the MENA region will suffer a loss of US$ 323 billion due to COVID-19 and lower oil prices. It is equivalent to 12 percent of GDP of region. Although all countries of MENA would be impacted but the major losers would be…

Amid political uncertainty, delay in the start of intra-Afghan peace dialogue and the outbreak of coronavirus, Afghanistan appears to be reaching a ‘defining moment’ as it struggles to emerge from the decades of conflict. Since signing of a peace agreement between United States and the Taliban in Doha on Feb…

Keeping growth going in hard times CPEC has been progressing and contributing to Pakistan’s economic and social development even in the face of adverse circumstances due to covid-19. The mega project brings solidarity, assistance and confidence to the people of Pakistan. To add impetus to CPEC projects, on March 16…