Pakistan officials are ready to scrap the CPEC project: Report
New Delhi: In the hope of financial help from the US, some officials of Pakistan are ready to scrap China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), the report said. The economic condition of Pakistan has worsened after shaking hands with the communist country China for strategic relations.
According to the media report, Pakistani authorities who remain predisposed to the West have even offered to scrap or sideline the CPEC if Washington could offer similar financial assistance.
Pakistan’s prospects for better ties with the US diminished further when the US declared Qatar as its diplomatic representative in Afghanistan in November 2021. The continued snubbing has forced the Imran Khan regime to appease the Chinese for the requisite economic and geopolitical assistance.
Imran Khan has been attempting to warm up relations with the US, even appointing Moeed Yusuf, a US-based Pakistani analyst who worked for years for the US government-funded United States Institute of Peace, as a national security adviser.
Earlier this month, During an interview with media, Imran Khan said, “We see CPEC and Gwadar as a great opportunity for geo-economics.”
Political experts in India and Pakistan believe that Pakistan has developed relations with China – in the hope of protection from India. After 2014, India criticized Pakistan at the international level for its support to the terrorist and their activities.
(_Vinayak)
