Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The CPEC "Early Harvest" plan includes [citation needed] a complete overhaul of the 1,687-kilometer-long Main Line 1 railway (ML-1) between Karachi and Peshawar. The plan was initially floated in 2015; [ 162 ] however, as of January 2023, construction on the project has not yet started, with funding only secured in November 2022. [ 163 ]
Construction on this portion is expected to be completed by 2018 at a cost of $86 million, [9] While the project is considered a vital link in the CPEC's Western Alignment, [11] the project's cost will not be financed by Chinese state-owned banks, but will instead be financed by the Asian Development Bank under a 2014 agreement which preceded ...
The Rashakai Special Economic Zone (Rashakai SEZ) is a key initiative within the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) framework. Positioned in Rashakai, Nowshera, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, it stands as one of the nine special economic zones planned for establishment between 2017 and 2030 as part of the CPEC initiative. Covering an area of around ...
Reconstruction works on this section of roadway preceded the CPEC, and were initiated after severe damage to roadways in the area following the 2010 Pakistan floods. Most of this section of roadway was completed in September 2012 at a cost of $510 million, [11] and was severely dilapidated even prior to the 2010 flooding. [12]
The book is divided into ten chapters that discuss and evaluate the anticipated economic and geopolitical effects on the region. In addition, it investigates the role of CPEC in the future regional cooperation and integration of subnational regions such as Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (including the Federally Administered Tribal Areas), and Gilgit-Baltistan.
Defence spending by NATO's European members and Canada was 20% higher in 2024 than the previous year, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said on Friday, ahead of a meeting in which they are likely ...
The government has emphasized the utmost importance of finishing all delayed CPEC projects, with a particular focus on the Dera Ismail Khan–Zhob Motorway. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] In December 2022, former Minister for Communications, Asad Mehmood , has expressed the intent to establish a network of contemporary highways in Balochistan, and the tender ...
The "passivity" agreement FDIC wants BlackRock to sign is designed to assure bank regulators that the giant money manager will remain a "passive" owner of an FDIC-supervised bank and won’t exert ...