China-Pak Economic Corridor to Extend toward Afghanistan
The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor is being extended to Afghanistan, a report said on Sunday.
The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor is being extended to Afghanistan, a report said on Sunday.
The $50 billion corridor that connects Kashgar in western China with Gwadar port in Pakistan, spanning 3,000 kilometres, is now being extended toward Afghanistan.
“China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a flagship project under the Belt and Road Initiative, has not only improved local infrastructure but also is extending toward Afghanistan, reducing poverty, the hotbed of terrorism, and bringing better prospects for local people’s lives,” China’s state-run Xinhua news agency quoted the report as saying.
The Belt and Road Initiative has injected “fresh vitality” to Asia’s economic cooperation and helped the continent to reshape its international relations.
Meanwhile, India protested against China’s CPEC push as the corridor passes through the controversial Kashmir area.
“China and Pakistan are willing to look at with Afghanistan, on the basis of win-win, mutually beneficial principles, using an appropriate means to extend the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor to Afghanistan,” Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi had said at the trilateral foreign ministers’ meeting.
