No compromise on CPEC as it is country’s future: Asim Bajwa

CPEC Expert Chairman and Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Information Lt-Gen (retd) Asim Saleem Bajwa has said that the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is a non-political global scheme and work for its accomplishment is in progress on a fast pace.

There is no political interference in its way. The project is Pakistan’s future as well as a perceptible reality and no concession will be made on it, the chairman said while talking to a designation of senior journalists on Wednesday.

Bajwa said Pakistan takes decisions in its interest and there should be no doubt that the CPEC project is in the best interest of the country, adding that “no external pressure will be accepted”.

He said that the working strategy of both the routes from Khunjrab to Gwadar has been completed and the outstanding link routes will be added into the plan in the next few months.

The second phase of this multibillion-dollar project is decisive for the development of the country and building work will soon be started.

Relating the projects in the second phase of CPEC, Bajwa said, Special prominence is on agriculture, industries, trade, and science and technology sectors.

He said that the highest priority was to make handy the economic zones in the four provinces, adding that Gwadar’s expansion projects were included in the second phase of the CPEC.

He also said that Pak-China Cooperation Committee would soon conduct a conference.

On the locusts’ attack, which is damaging the crops on a large scale in the country, Bajwa said that China would establish a pest control centre in Pakistan.

The quality of seeds is being improved to strengthen the crops against infestation, Asim Bajwa added.

On the studentship programme, he said that the headway had been made in the programme. Twenty thousand Pakistani students will go on scholarships to China.

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