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ISLAMABAD
Chairman China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) Authority Lt. General (retired) Asim Saleem Bajwa says the pace of work on CPEC projects has recently been picked up and the scope of the project has been enhanced.
In a tweet, he said a great deal of groundwork has been done to launch phase two of the project.
“Some detractors are giving false impression of CPEC being slowed. Not only pace of work on the projects under CPEC picked up recently, ground work of CPEC phase-II had also started recently,” he said in his twitter statement.
Asim Bajwa who also heads CPEC project informed that the mega US$ 7.2 billion railway up-gradation project of mainline (ML-1) was also going to be launched soon besides two hydel power projects with an investment of $3.5 billion.
The advisor said work on number of other projects such as Special Economic Zones and those belonging to agriculture sector would also be materialized soon. In fact, he said, the scope of work on CPEC had enhanced instead of going down.
Earlier, on May 22, Chinese Embassy in Pakistan had taken notice of what it called irresponsible remarks from outgoing US Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Alice Wells on the China-Pakistan relations and the CPEC project.
According to a message posted on micro-blogging website-Twitter, the Chinese Embassy in Pakistan termed Alice Wells’ remarks as totally baseless, just a repetition of her same old tune. “This is yet another doomed attempt to defame Sino-Pak relations and the CPEC. We are firmly opposed to it.”
