The Prime Minister arrived in Saudi Arabia on a three-day visit of the Kingdom to attend the launch of Middle East Green Initiative (MGI) Summit being held in Riyadh. The premier, upon arrival in Jeddah, was received by Prince Badar bin Sultan Al Saud, Deputy Governor of Makkah region, while in Madinah Munawara he was welcomed by Prince Saud Bin Khalid Al-Faisal, Deputy Governor of Madinah Region. Support quality journalism and subscribe to Business Standard.PM Imran Khan was accompanied by Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Energy Minister Hammad Azhar and Special Assistant for Environment Malik Amin Aslam. Your support through more subscriptions can help us practise the journalism to which we are committed. We believe in free, fair and credible journalism. More subscription to our online content can only help us achieve the goals of offering you even better and more relevant content. Our subscription model has seen an encouraging response from many of you, who have subscribed to our online content.
Even during these difficult times arising out of Covid-19, we continue to remain committed to keeping you informed and updated with credible news, authoritative views and incisive commentary on topical issues of relevance.Īs we battle the economic impact of the pandemic, we need your support even more, so that we can continue to offer you more quality content.
#Imran khan amplifier video how to#
Your encouragement and constant feedback on how to improve our offering have only made our resolve and commitment to these ideals stronger. (Only the headline and picture of this report may have been reworked by the Business Standard staff the rest of the content is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)īusiness Standard has always strived hard to provide up-to-date information and commentary on developments that are of interest to you and have wider political and economic implications for the country and the world. In terms of its scope, Phase II of CPEC is going to be an order of magnitude bigger than Phase I. He referred to fake news and negative propaganda about the viability of CPEC and the pace of its progress. Their ambassadors keep on coming, he said. Some European countries have started showing interest (in CPEC). He said there has been deep interest in developing economic connectivity between Afghanistan and Pakistan and with other neighbouring countries, including Iran. Mansoor said Islamabad is seeking the expansion of the CPEC to Afghanistan and has discussed the possibility of Taliban-led Afghanistan joining the multibillion-dollar economic corridor. They have also expressed their wish that they would like to develop some kind of involvement and see how it can be beneficial for both countries, he said. I told them CPEC is available for them as well. I had a detailed discussion with the people in the American embassy. The United States is now taking stock of the economic and political consequences of withdrawing from the region, he reasoned. That's the reason CPEC is seen suspiciously by both the United States and Europe they view CEPC more as a move by China to expand its political, strategic and business influence, Mansoor said, noting that China has been able to allay that apprehension to a great extent. Mansoor said the Western powers view the CPEC as a symbol of China's political ambition. It has more than once burnt its fingers in (the Western) alliance in the past, he said, adding that their attempts to dilute China's strategic influence in the region will fail. There's no way Pakistan will forgo any of its benefits. The premier's aide said the United States and India continue to make attempts to manoeuvre Pakistan out of China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) a global infrastructure development plan under which the Chinese government has been investing heavily in about 70 countries, the report said. Many Western think tanks and commentators have termed the CPEC an economic trap that has already resulted in bloated public debt levels and disproportionately high Chinese influence in Pakistan's economy, a report in the Dawn newspaper said. Islamabad is the seventh largest recipient of Chinese overseas development financing with 71 projects worth USD 27.3 billion currently underway as part of the CPEC. That's where we have to take a position, Khalid Mansoor, the Special Assistant to Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on CPEC affairs said while addressing the CPEC Summit at the Institute of Business Administration in Karachi on Saturday. It aims to connect western China with the Gwadar seaport in southwestern Pakistan through a network of roads, railways and other projects of infrastructure and development.įrom the point of view of the emerging geo-strategic situation, one thing is clear: the United States supported by India is inimical to CPEC.