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INDI: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa in a meeting with the Chinese Ambassador to Pakistan H.E Yao Jing said that China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is the economic future o
f Pakistan and its security shall never be compromised.
The Chinese ambassador appraised the efforts o
f Pakistan in conduct of a fruitful visit of Chinese prime minister to Pakistan.
The army chief’s statement regardin
g CPEC came a day after Financial Times (London-based) newspaper said that Pakistan reconsidered its agreement with China for One Belt One Rode (OBOR) initiative.
Also Read: Pak to review CPEC agreements
The story publish
ed in FT had claimed that Pakistani ministers and advisers said the newly-elected Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government will review ‘BRI investments and renegotiate trade agreements signed more than a decad
e ago that it says unfairly benefits Chinese companies’.
Also read: Pakistan committed to implementin
g CPEC
Earlier, PM Imran Khan had said that friendly relationship with China is the cornerstone o
f Pakistan’s foreign policy and that his government was committed to implementin
g CPEC.
