The thrust of infrastructure development will pick up game-changing pace when the $46 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor projects in energy and rail and road construction start to take shape.
The four-phase, fast-track work on three road routes – Western, Central and Eastern – connecting Kashgar and Gwadar is in progress to get an early harvest by 2018 and complete the fourth phase by 2030.
The CPEC will give us Pakistan’s biggest, 4,800-acre airport at a cost of Rs 22 billion and a world-class port in Gwadar, leased to the Chinese for 43 years.
But remember, CPEC is only a means, not an end. It is a corridor, and how we use it is what matters.
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