{"id":534059,"date":"2022-11-04T09:18:35","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T03:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=534059"},"modified":"2022-11-04T10:22:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T04:52:00","slug":"pakistan-china-to-extend-cpec-to-afghanistan-despite-indias-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/pakistan-china-to-extend-cpec-to-afghanistan-despite-indias-opposition\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan, China to extend CPEC to Afghanistan despite India&#8217;s opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan and China have decided to go ahead with a plan to extend China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) to Afghanistan despite opposition from India on issues of sovereignty and territorial integrity.<\/p>\n<p>CPEC is a key part of China&#8217;s most ambitious project Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), aimed at renewing the country&#8217;s ancient trade routes.<\/p>\n<p>India has consistently opposed the USD 60 billion project, which links Pakistan&#8217;s southern Gwadar port in Balochistan to China&#8217;s western Xinjiang and passes through Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.<\/p>\n<p>During Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif&#8217;s official visit to Beijing, China on Wednesday assured Pakistan of its continued support to the country&#8217;s sustainable economic and strategic projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan and China have decided to go ahead with a plan to extend China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) to Afghanistan despite opposition from India on issues of sovereignty and territorial integrity. CPEC is a key part of China&#8217;s most ambitious project Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), aimed at renewing the country&#8217;s ancient trade routes. India has consistently opposed the USD 60 billion project, which links Pakistan&#8217;s southern Gwadar port in Balochistan to China&#8217;s western Xinjiang and passes through Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. During Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif&#8217;s official visit to Beijing, China on Wednesday assured Pakistan of its continued support to the [&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-534059","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\/534059","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=534059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}