As the COVID-19 pandemic is gradually brought under control under the concerted efforts of Pakistan’s government and people, the Punjab government has recently lifted lockdown …

On August 20, the second bilateral Joint Consultative Mechanism (JCM) on CPEC was held. The JCM is the apex political platform established by the Communist …

In 2019, the World Bank released three studies, including ‘Common Transport Infrastructure’, ‘A Quantitative Model and Estimates from the Belt and Road Initiative’, ‘The Belt …

ISLAMABAD: Work on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) has picked up pace in the past few months. We have seen a series of groundbreaking ceremonies …

EMERGING socio-economic, geopolitical and geostrategic trends favoured the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) development which got finalized a series of mega projects of hydropower generation (dams) …

ISLAMABAD: The political economy influences decision-making, which undermines the performance of economy and results in politicising of the economic priorities. Although all sectors of the …

The 820-kilometer-long fibre optic cable project at a cost of $46 million, stretches from China’s western Xinjiang region and enters Pakistan through Khunjerab border and …

Up to now, COVID-19 is still spreading across the globe, which has infected more than 8 million people. At the time when the situation in …

IMPROVING physical access and communication between different parts of the world has gained importance as the cornerstone of global and regional integration and economic growth …

With a sizeable seafront, a large Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) and continental shelf, Pakistan is blessed with abundant marine resource potential for innovation and economic …