Uzbekistan Offered Access To Pakistani Ports
March 12th, 2021
Via Pakistan’s Technology Times, an article on potential cooperation between Uzbekistan and Pakistan: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday assured Uzbekistan of complete facilitation in access to Pakistani ports. Mr Khan held out the assurance during a meeting with Uzbekistan’s Foreign Minister Dr Abdulaziz Kamilov, who was on a two-day visit to Pakistan. Mr Khan, […]
Read more »Chinese Power Loans Fueling A Debt Trap In Pakistan
February 26th, 2021
Via Asia Times, an article on how Chinese power loans are fueling a debt trap in Pakistan: Pakistan is the latest nation struggling to repay Chinese loans extended under the Belt and Road Initiative, with indications emerging that Islamabad will soon seek to reschedule as much as $22 billion in outstanding power sector credits. In recent […]
Read more »Uzbekistan Prioritizes Pakistani Over Iranian Ports
February 22nd, 2021
Courtesy of The Diplomat, a report on how Tashkent – in an effort to access seaports at lower costs and shorter distances – may look to Pakistani ports as the answer: Tashkent has been working on creating shorter and cheaper transportation corridors to access seaports since the country’s independence. On February 2, the first trilateral talks […]
Read more »Huawei Digitally Connects Pakistan Beyond India’s Reach
February 15th, 2021
Via Asia Times, a report on how a new Silk Road fiber optic cable project eases Pakistan’s cybersecurity concerns with India but raises new ones with China: China is poised to lay the last stretch of a cross-border fiber optic cable in Pakistan, a Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) project designed in part to cut […]
Read more »CPEC: A Gateway To Central Asia
February 7th, 2021
Via The Frontier Post, some commentary on CPEC: CPEC is Asian giant and landmark in Sino-Pak evergreen ties. It is regional integration chipping Pak-China with the rest of the regional states. CPEC is an open hub for all regional stakeholders among which Central Asia is of great vitality in regard to geopolitical, socio-economic and geostrategic […]
Read more »Afghanistan-Uzbekistan-Pakistan Railway Line Mapped Out
February 3rd, 2021
Via Ariana News, a report on a planned Afghanistan-Uzbekistan-Pakistan railway line: Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, and Pakistan on Tuesday signed an agreement for a landmark railway link aimed at bolstering trade ties between Central and South Asia. The signing ceremony for the multi-billion-dollar project took place in Tashkent, and was attended by senior officials from the three […]
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