The mass protests reflect six years of disappointment and resentment on the part of locals who have seen no benefit from Chinese investment projects. A Pakistan Navy soldier stands guard while a ...

As a flagship project of China's Belt and Road Initiative, the CPEC has emerged as a transformative force, reshaping Pakistan ...

On a warm February afternoon in 2022, I did what women in Gwadar rarely do. I sat in an old bookshop with my father to interview Master Imam Buksh, one of the oldest persons alive in the town today.

For the people of Gwadar, stability isn't an abstract goal. It's the chance to send a child to school without worrying about a sudden deadline of violence ...

CPEC is not about a few scattered projects or an array of initiatives aligned more with Chinese interest rather than benefiting Pakistan. Neither is CPEC about the debt circle that China has been ...

The opening of Gwadar International Airport, a key piece of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, is expected to bolster the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), while also intensifying India’s ...

Pakistani millionaires are snapping up real estate in the impoverished city of Gwadar in response to China’s multibillion-dollar investments that aim to transform the coastal area of Pakistan’s ...

The CPEC is valued at around $65 billion and stretches nearly 3,000 kilometres from Gwadar Port in Balochistan to China's Xinjiang region through highways, railways, pipelines and energy projects.

Do Pakistani leaders really need to heed President Xi Jinping's call for the Global Governance Initiative (GGI)? What does this initiative mean for a country like Pakistan — reeling from natural ...

CPEC-II: Pakistan is betting big on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), with the country’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif scheduled to visit Beijing at the end of August to inaugurate the CPEC ...

An independent Balochistan controlling Gwadar Port would challenge China's CPEC. The new government could renegotiate or terminate contracts, impacting China's strategic interests, infrastructure ...