ISLAMABAD: The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is the most crucial project for Pakistan’s economic stability and national security and it should not be made controversial like Kalabagh Dam.
This was stated by Minister for Inter-Provincial Coordination Riaz Hussain Pirzada while talking to the state-owned news agency.
“CPEC is a game changer not only for Pakistan for the entire region and nobody will be allowed to make the multi-billion dollar CPEC project controversial,” he told APP when asked about reservations of smaller provinces about change in its western route.
He said the CPEC project would pass through the entire country and all provinces would get benefit from this gigantic project, particularly the backward areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan would get more benefit from it.
He said the federal government had time and again assured the smaller provinces that western route of the CPEC would be built on priority and all its work would be carried out with collaboration of all the stakeholders.
The Minister said the federal government would fulfil the commitment about CEPC made at the All Parties Conference (APC) in May,2015. He said the political parties should not believe in negative propaganda unleashed against the project and avoid giving controversial statements about it.
