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Pakistan, China set to reinvigorate economic corridor project connecting Xinjiang to Gwadar
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Beijing now appears keen to revitalise the CPEC at a time when other countries have appeared interested in investing in Pakistan.
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KARACHI - Ahead of Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s visit to China from June 4, hopes are high in Islamabad that the flagging multibillion-dollar China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC)
This is after a successful visit in mid-May by Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar to Beijing, at which pledges were made by both sides to put the massive investment plan back on track, after it has languished in recent years because of project delays, financial problems and a spate of deadly terrorist attacks on Chinese nationals working on the projects.
