Pakistan’s $100B Deal With China
August 26th, 2017
Via Devex, a detailed look at China’s investment and aid to Pakistan: Early last year, the Pakistani government sent USAID officials in Islamabad a mystifying letter via snail mail: please stop doing feasibility studies for Diamer Basha Dam. Pakistan had been lobbying the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Asian Development Bank since 2010 to complete the dam. A USAID assessment […]
Read more »Dueling Ports Underline China-India BRI Rivalry
August 16th, 2017
Via Asia Times, an article on how New Delhi’s fast track development of Iran’s Chabahar port is viewed as a security threat in Pakistan and open challenge to Beijing’s BRI designs: India’s eagerness to develop Iran’s southern Chabahar port project has irked certain military circles in Pakistan which view the facility as a potential security threat […]
Read more »The Real Thrust Of The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor
August 16th, 2017
Via The Straits Times, a look at the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor: There is no doubt that the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), with a total outlay in excess of US$62 billion (S$84.5 billion), is a key pillar of China’s One Belt, One Road (Obor) programme. Coverage of the CPEC, however, has focused on only a sliver […]
Read more »CPEC Invigorating Blue Diplomacy
August 9th, 2017
Via the Pakistan Observer, an article on OBOR, CPEC, and the impact on regional diplomacy: Seas play a vital role for diplomacy and trade in global environment and have shaped Blue Diplomacy. Pakistan has been blessed with large area of Arabian Sea (termed as warm waters) encompassing 290,000 Sq. km with three main ports Karachi, Port Qasim and Gwadar. […]
Read more »Tajikistan: Pakistan’s Gateway to Central Asia
August 7th, 2017
Via The Diplomat, a report on how Islamabad and Dushanbe have grown closer, pulled together by mutually beneficial energy projects: Tajikistan, a Central Asian state formerly part of the Soviet Union, has an area of 143,100 square kilometers and a population of 7.1 million. The country borders Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and China. It is separated […]
Read more »Harvard Kennedy School CID Projects Pakistan GDP Growth to Average 5.97% Till 2025
July 9th, 2017
Via , an interesting look at Pakistan’s economic growth trajectory: In its latest economic growth projections, Kennedy School’s Center for International Development (CID) at Harvard University expects Pakistan’s annual GDP growth to average 5.97% over the next 8 years, ranking it as the world’s 6th fastest growing economy. Growth Projections. Source: HKS CID Report The […]
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