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What? "Future defence of state"? Since when was the Metro a risk to the defence of the state? What tangent are you taking this? It's a friggin' metro, not a bomb.
Also, Have you missed the first page, where all the CMs are travelling with the federal delegation to sign agreements?
The person signing it is a Provincial Minister of Punjab. Note all the Federal Government Minsters etc in the signing ceremony.
This discussion has gone way beyond crazy.
I asked for evidence (and not a rant and you tearing your hair out) that the federal government has granted a provincial government power to sign such agreements. Unless Pakistan is run on the basis of a Lahore based incestuous biradri gathering their uncles and calling that lawful authority, you have failed to provide that.
The CPEC is part of China's strategic plan for the region. When a foreign state wants to build transport links in your country, you need to consider the reasons and long-term implications. For instance Nawaz and his minions who have set up shop in Lahore have torn up previous plans and insisted that this transport corridor goes through Lahore. Is it solely to provide benefit to their ethnic group and relatives in Lahore? Consider that Nawaz and his relatives have been granted business interests in India, which means their money is now going to be tied up in India.
Or is it designed to create an Sino-Indian conflict or casus belli for China to intervene in the event that Indian forces cross the border into Pakistan? For a fact in the event that India changes its defense strategy and decides to attack across the border in the event of even limited hostilities, this transport link is indefensible whereas a link through Islamabad would have been better--and that's the reason Ayub Khan built Islamabad as a capital city instead of Karachi.