ISLAMABAD
The government will be winding up the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) Authority by merging it with the CPEC Secretariat.
According to media reports, the previous government had set up the Authority in 2019 through an ordinance. Its former chairman was Lieutenant General (retd) Asim Saleem Bajwa, who took charge in November 2019 for four years but resigned prematurely in August 2021. After rolling out the CPEC Authority, the CPEC Secretariat was made inactive during former prime minister Imran Khan’s tenure. But now the secretariat, which consists of two wings — the CPEC Support Project and the CPEC Centre of Excellence — has been made operational again.
