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Ahsan Iqbal slams CPEC ‘master plan’ article, calls it Dawn Leaks II
- Updated: May 15, 2017
PHOTO: APP
Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal on Monday slammed a Dawn essay divulgence what it claimed to be the “original devise of a China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC)”.
Claiming the papers have been expelled to a open for a initial time, a English-language daily pronounced a devise revealed “what Chinese intentions and priorities are in Pakistan for a subsequent decade and a half, sum that have not been discussed in open so far.”
Corridor to ‘change region’s geo-economic balance’
Iqbal, who plays a executive purpose in CPEC, slammed the article as “Dawn Leaks II.” “I am confounded by Dawn Leak II. CPEC long-term devise story formed on operative papers to distort final breeze taken adult with NDRC yesterday in Beijing,” a formulation apportion said.
I am confounded by Dawn Leak II. CPEC Long Term Plan story formed on operative docs 2 crush final breeze taken adult with NDRC yesterday in Beijing
— Ahsan Iqbal (@betterpakistan) May 15, 2017
He serve settled that Dawn had not approached him or his method for fact-checking. “Definite angling in story to assail CPEC by compelling fears,” he added.
CDB investigate referred to as Long Term Plan in Dawn story is factually incorrect. Definite angling in story to assail CPEC by compelling fears.
— Ahsan Iqbal (@betterpakistan) May 15, 2017
Dawn should have taken Ministry of Plng Dev Ref chronicle as a customary journalistic use to not misinform adults thru surplus docs.
— Ahsan Iqbal (@betterpakistan) May 15, 2017
Iqbal serve mentioned that a long-term devise could not have been disclosed by Pakistani supervision but consulting the Chinese. He called a Dawn story “half cooked” in a competition to mangle a news first.
We couldn’t recover LTP but final conference with Chinese side that was finished yesterday. In competition for violation news half baked story.
— Ahsan Iqbal (@betterpakistan) May 15, 2017
Pakistan sealed new deals with China on Saturday value scarcely $500 million forward of Beijing’s general forum on a “Silk Road” trade and infrastructure beginning for Asia, Africa and Europe, a Pakistani supervision said. The memorandums of bargain supplement to $57 billion already affianced for a China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a network of rail, highway and appetite infrastructure that is partial of a wider Chinese plan also famous as a Belt and Road initiative, or One Belt, One Road. The deals came as Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif met Chinese President Xi Jinping forward of a Beijing limit approaching to be attended by leaders from during slightest 29 countries to foster Xi’s prophesy of expanding trade links.