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China denies making impossible demands for collapsed US$14 billion infrastructure deal with Pakistan
Beijing did not ask for ownership rights to Diamer-Bhasha dam, an unnamed official with China’s top planning agency was quoted on state media
Viola ZhouUPDATED : Friday, 8 Dec 2017, 11:15AM
An official with China’s top planning agency said it does not accept Pakistan’s claim that it decided to cancel a US$14 billion infrastructure deal with China because Beijing was making demands that were impossible to meet, state media reported.
The Chinese government did not ask for ownership or operation rights to the Diamer-Bhasha dam or seek to take another Pakistan dam in exchange for striking an agreement with Islamabad, the state-run Xinhua news agency on Thursday quoted an unnamed official with the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) as saying.
The conditions “did not exist”, the official was quoted. “The recent reports on Pakistani media contained factual mistakes”, “or they only reflected the stands of individual officials”.
Pakistani media had reported last month that the project was excluded from the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) framework because Islamabad was unable to meet China’s “strict conditions” for agreement.
The Chinese conditions were “not doable and against our interests”, Pakistan’s Express Tribune quoted Water and Power Development Authority chairman Muzammil Hussain as saying on November 14.
Hussain said the conditions centred on project ownership, operation and maintenance costs and possibly giving China operational rights to another Pakistani dam, according to the report.
The official with the NDRC, an agency under the State Council with broad administrative and planning control over the Chinese economy, was quoted as saying the two governments are still in touch regarding cooperation on the Diamer-Bhasha dam, although the facility is not part of the CPEC plan.
The dam, on the Indus river in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan, is in the preliminary stages of construction.
The official said Chinese companies had made large investments to generate profit from the Gwadar Port since taking over management rights. Gwadar Port, a deep-sea port on the Arabian Sea at Gwadar in Pakistan’s Balochistan province, is seen as vital to the US$57 billion CEPC plan and a crucial element of China’s massive trade and infrastructure undertaking, the “Belt and Road Initiative”.
The CPEC, a flagship project under the Belt and Road Initiative, is considered vital to open up trade along land and sea corridors from Asia to Africa to Europe...
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Faisalabad Multan Motorway M-4: Gojra-Shorkot Motorway to become operational by March 2018.under construction at Chak No 384 JB near Jhang Toba Road Interchange.
62 km project has been divided in two sections of 31 km each including Gojra-Jamani and Jamani-Shorkot sections.
The package one has one interchange at Toba Tek Singh, three bridges, 51 underpasses and 162 water culverts.
The package two has two inter-changes namely Waryamwala and Shorkot, five bridges, 46 under passes and 159 water culverts.
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The Beautiful 892 Km - Motorway M-8 an east-west motorway in Pakistan, connecting & to the port city of Gwadar.
The Ratodero - Gwadar Motorway (M-8) is starting from Ratodero in Province and entering in Province passing near the towns of , , , & before joining the Highway just east of the port city of Gwadar.
Wonderfully constructed M8 crosses the River and passes near the in Balochistan Province. The length of this wonderfully constructed motorway is 892 km. Initially, 2-lanes are constructed, after the completion of which another 2-lanes will be added, thus making a total of 4-lanes.
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CPEC Power
igging of Coal pit underway to power 660 MW Engro Thar Coal Power Plant.It will be operational with Thar coal in June 2019.., - , - ....
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: 392 Km - M-5 under construction Bridge on line Section 7 near Shujabad - Multan.
It will be operational for traffic in June 2018....
