By Khalid Mustafa in the News, December 22, 2014 ISLAMABAD: In 2005 a devastating earthquake hit Pakistan that wreaked havoc in the northern areas, AJK and some parts of KPK. Balakot city was totally destroyed. The world community offered $5.5 billion funding to rebuild the badly hit five districts of KPK and 4 districts of AJK. The government of Pakistan prepared a special plan to develop new Balakot city in Mansehra district for which it…
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The writer is a freelance columnist based in Lahore When the prime minister visited China in November and signed pacts of $45.6 billion investment in development projects, the nation had a good reason to be euphoric. Of the committed investment, $33.8 billion is allocated for power generation and $11.8 billion for developing roads and transportation network. Pakistan and China signed the China-Pak Economic Corridor Agreement, under which China would develop a four-lane road infrastructure from…
By Abdul Manan in The Express Tribune, December 22nd, 2014. ISLAMABAD: China’s President Xi Jinping is to visit Pakistan in February 2015 along with the heads of dozens of companies, members of a Chinese delegation told the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz at a meeting on Sunday. The delegation, led by Vice Minister of the International Department of the Committee of the Communist Party Chen Fengxiang, has called on Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, Punjab…