The Baloch House

🔴 Dr.Allah Nazar latest tweet on CPEC#CPEC is entirely failed by Baloch freedom fighters but #Pakistan is deceiving the rest of the world of its success.

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By signing CPEC, is Pakistan signing away its freedom to China?By Sandhya Jain -May 16, 2017By signing CPEC, is Pakistan signing away its freedom to China? Graphic courtesy Dawn, ReutersWill the elite of Pakistan take a cut and sign anything?Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif may have received an exceptionally warm welcome when he arrived in Beijing on May 13, 2017 for the Border Road Initiative (BRI) summit, of which the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is the crown jewel, but he may return to a more questioning opinion back home as details of the deal become known. In a piece of spectacular journalism, Khurram Husain of Dawn newspaper (May 15) has revealed details of Chinese intentions and priorities in Pakistan for the next fifteen years. The country’s military mentors will also have much to explain regarding Chinese virtual takeover of Pakistan.There appear to be two versions of the Long Term Plan; a full vers…

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PESHAWAR: Pakistan Peoples Party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari on Monday claimed that even the Chinese know that the projects under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) are not corruption-free.Mocking his political opponents during an address to FATA convention, he claimed that the “show” of both Nawaz Sharif and Imran Khan is now over.“We have no hopes from this government…it is incompetent,” Zardari said.Taking an aim at Imran Khan, Zardari said the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chairman is afraid of going to jail and comes out to address rallies directly from his drawing room “after Sheikh Rasheed first tells him he has reached”.Taking credit for the progress of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, he said that efforts by his party had enabled everyone in the country to carry out political activities in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas.Zardari said that the extension of the …

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This weekend everybody expected Germany’s Economics Minister Brigitte Zypries to praise the “One Belt, One Road” initiative to create a new silk road trade route at a forum in Beijing.Instead she made a plea for trade. “Protectionism must be fought,” she said at the event attended by 30 national leaders invited by President Xi Jinping, “erecting new trade barriers is dangerous and endangers global growth.”Her heartfelt comments came after EU nations refused to sign a joint statement about trade supporting the new silk road link. They refused because China had not accepted any of Europe’s calls for free trade and equal conditions. On Monday, when the forum ends, leaders are still expected to publish a communique supporting the huge infrastructure project which sees billions invested into building roads, harbors and railway lines to link Asia, Europe and Africa.Ms. Zypries’ plea is part …

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Lily KuoMay 15, 2017Along the One Belt, One Road. (Reuters/Noor Khamis)China’s campaign to build a massive network of land and sea links connecting Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa is expected to benefit the African countries along the route. Chinese officials pledged an extra $113 billion in funding for the project at a summit in Beijing over the last two days. In total, China will spend as much as $3 trillion on roads, ports, and other updates to infrastructure in more than 60 countries that make up the “One Belt, One Road.”China’s new Silk Road. (Reuters)China has already financed and built a $4 billion railway between Djibouti to Addis Ababa, the continent’s first transnational electric railway. In Kenya, a Chinese firm has built a new railway connecting Nairobi to the country’s port city of Mombasa. Eventually it will reach Uganda, Rwanda, and the Democratic R…

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Source: Xinhua| 2017-05-15 23:39:14|Editor: YameiBEIJING, May 15 (Xinhua) -- The Leaders Roundtable of the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation was held Monday in Beijing. A joint communique was issued after the summit.Following is an English version of the joint communique:Joint Communique of the Leaders Roundtable of the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation1. We, President Xi Jinping of the People's Republic of China, President Mauricio Macri of the Republic of Argentina, President Alexander Lukashenko of the Republic of Belarus, President Michelle Bachelet Jeria of the Republic of Chile, President Milos Zeman of the Czech Republic, President Joko Widodo of the Republic of Indonesia, President Nursultan Nazarbayev of the Republic of Kazakhstan, President Uhuru Kenyatta of the Republic of Kenya, President Almazbek Atambayev of the Kyrgyz Republic, President Bounnhang Vorachith of the Lao People&…

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Member states wary of Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road initiative without guarantees on transparency, sustainability and tendering process

Tom Phillips in BeijingMonday 15 May 2017 15.58 BSTLast modified on Monday 15 May 2017 16.31 BSTThe EU has dealt a blow to Chinese president Xi Jinping’s bid to lead a global infrastructure revolution, after its members refused to endorse part of the multibillion-dollar plan because it did not include commitments to social and environmental sustainability and transparency.Xi made his latest bid for global leadershipon Monday, telling leaders including Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdoğan that the world should reject protectionism, embrace globalisation and pull together like a skein of geese.Xi’s comments came on the second and final day of a high-profile summit in Beijing about his Belt and Road initiative, a multibillion-dollar infrastructur…

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Reuters | Beijing May 15, 2017 02:45 PM ISTLeaders attending the Belt and Road Forum wave as they pose for a group photo at the Yanqi Lake venue on the outskirt of Beijing. Photo: ReutersBehind China's trillion-dollar effort to build a modern Silk Road is a lending programme of unprecedented breadth, one that will help build ports, roads and rail links, but could also leave some banks and many countries with quite a hangover.
At the heart of that splurge are China's two policy lenders, China Development Bank (CDB) and Export-Import Bank of China (EXIM), which have between them already provided $200 billion in loans throughout Asia, the Middle East and even Africa.
They are due to extend at least $55 billion more, according to announcements made during a lavish two-day Belt and Road summit in Beijing, which ends on Monday.
Thanks to cheaper …

http://www.eurasiareview.com/14052017-conflict-in-middle-east-threatens-pakistan-and-lynchpin-of-chinas-one-belt-one-road-analysis/
 May 14, 2017James M. DorseyBy James M. DorseyIncreasingly caught up in the Middle East’s multiple conflicts, Pakistan is struggling to balance relations with rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran amid concern in Islamabad that potential US-Saudi efforts to destabilize the Islamic republic could turn its crucial province of Balochistan, a lynchpin in China’s One Belt, One Road initiative, into a battleground.Concern about Balochistan is buffeted by a sense in Islamabad of problems along its multiple borders. Pakistani officials fear that China may be seeking closer ties with India at Pakistan’s expense, despite its massive $56 billion investment in Pakistani infrastructure that centres on linking the troubled Baloch port of Gwadar, a gateway to the Gulf, with China’s restive, north-western province of Xinjiang.Pakistani officials see a statement by China’s ambassad…

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By Ali Legharion May 15, 2017

A letter of Intent was inked between Pakistan and Turkey for the sale of four Hi-tech Turkish MILGEM Ada Corvettes to the Pakistan Navy. Pakistan will use these MILGEM Ada Corvettes to guard its both Gwadar and Karachi ports from external threats.The letter was signed by Pakistan’s Minister of Defense Production Rana Tanveer Hussain, Turkey’s Minister of Defence Fikri Işık and Turkish defense contractor Savunma Teknolojileri Muhendislik Ve Ticaret. The contract will be finalized by June 30, 2017.About MILGEM Ada Corvette
It is a modern combat warship with indigenous anti-submarine warfare and high-seas patrol capabilities. The design of the ship helps it to remain hidden. It has 2 squad anti-ship missile launchers with a 76 mm main gun and a point-defense missile system in the Rolling Airframe Missile.“Each MILGEM Ada would have cost $300 million but Pakistan is plann…