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Pakistan to avoid getting caught up in great power competition: PM

Report in The Nation, Sept 28, 2023ISLAMABAD – Caretaker Prime Minister An­waarul Haq Kakar said that Paki­stan was focusing on its own in­terests without choosing sides in the great power competition, and that the West was “over-obsessed” with efforts to contain China. The prime minister, in an in­terview with Washington Post during his visit to New York to attend the 78th United Nations General Assembly session pub­lished on Wednesday, said Paki­stan intended to stay “neutral”…

Caught in the crossfire: will militants derail China’s belt and road plans in Pakistan?

by Zhao Ziwen and Hayley Wong in SCMP, Aug 26, 2023The armed attack this month on a convoy carrying Chinese workers was just the latest in a string of militant strikes in Pakistan. In the attack on August 13, insurgents targeted a convoy of four bulletproof vehicles carrying 23 Chinese engineers on way to Gwadar Port in Balochistan, a flagship project of the Belt and Road Initiative, China’s plan to grow global trade. None of…