Pakistan PM Khan launches various mega projects in Gwadar

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday performed the ground-breaking of several mega projects and launched a number of other infrastructure ventures under the ambitious China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) in Pakistan’s strategic coastal city of Gwadar.

The CPEC, which connects Gwadar Port in Pakistan’s Balochistan province with China’s Xinjiang province, is the flagship project of China’s ambitious multi-billion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). It will give China an opening to the Arabian Sea.

The BRI is seen as an attempt by China to further its influence abroad with infrastructure projects funded by Chinese investments all over the world.