{"id":363165,"date":"2020-07-17T10:04:18","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T04:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=363165"},"modified":"2020-07-17T10:05:27","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T04:35:27","slug":"pakistan-back-in-chinas-belt-and-road-game-with-projects-worth-11-bn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/pakistan-back-in-chinas-belt-and-road-game-with-projects-worth-11-bn\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan back in China&#8217;s Belt and Road game with projects worth $11 bn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s Belt and Road programme has found new life in Pakistan with $11 billion worth of projects signed in the last month, driven by a former lieutenant general who has reinvigorated the infrastructure plan that\u2019s been languishing since Prime Minister Imran Khan took office two years ago. <\/p>\n<p>The nations signed deals on June 25 and July 6 for two hydro-power generation projects costing $3.9 billion in the disputed Kashmir region, and another to revamp the South Asian nation\u2019s colonial-era railways for $7.2 billion \u2014 the most expensive Chinese project yet in Pakistan. <\/p>\n<p>Khan\u2019s government appointed Asim Saleem Bajwa last year to run the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor Authority, which oversees more than $70 billion in projects from power plants to highways. He also joined Khan\u2019s Cabinet in late April, becoming one of more than a dozen former and current military officials in prominent government roles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s Belt and Road programme has found new life in Pakistan with $11 billion worth of projects signed in the last month, driven by a former lieutenant general who has reinvigorated the infrastructure plan that\u2019s been languishing since Prime Minister Imran Khan took office two years ago. The nations signed deals on June 25 and July 6 for two hydro-power generation projects costing $3.9 billion in the disputed Kashmir region, and another to revamp the South Asian nation\u2019s colonial-era railways for $7.2 billion \u2014 the most expensive Chinese project yet in Pakistan. Khan\u2019s government appointed Asim Saleem Bajwa last year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-roads-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}