Pak Looks at Region “Geoeconomically, Not Geostrategically”

[Shahzaz ud din]

Pak Looks at Region “Geoeconomically, Not Geostrategically”

Pakistan was now looking at the region geoeconomically, not geostrategically

IRSHAD SALIM (Jun 1, 2018)– The mega CPEC program would continue to be implemented despite changes in governments in Pakistan and Azad Jammu and Kashmir is now been integrated into it with four ongoing projects.

“There would be continuity in CPEC related projects, which would be completed without interruption”, said the President of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Sardar Masood Khan at a seminar in Vienna.



Titled “Pakistan’s New Role between China and Europe; Opportunities and Challenges of China’s Silk Road Project” the event was organized by the Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy (AIES) attended by over 70 scholars, analysts, ambassadors, diplomats, UN representatives and members of civil society.

The AJK President who is also the former Pakistan ambassador to China said, “Pakistan was now looking at the region geoeconomically, not geostrategically”.

Khan who is also considered an expert in Pakistan-China relations, added that now many states were showing interest in CPEC and had already attracted the attention of Russia, Turkey, Italy, France and the UK and several other European countries were already consulting with Pakistan and China to participate in CPEC projects. The Gwadar Port, in particular, he said, would give Russia access to warm waters via Central Asia for international trade, helping begin a new phase of cooperation between Russia and Pakistan.



The audience took a keen interest in the possible resolution of the Jammu and Kashmir dispute. The president said Jammu and Kashmir dispute should be resolved in accordance with the mechanisms established by the United Nations for the pacific settlement of disputes, which included dialogue, preventive diplomacy, peacemaking, negotiations and mediation.

He said Azad Jammu and Kashmir had now been integrated into the China Pakistan Economic Corridor and four projects under CPEC have been initiated. “These are two hydropower projects, one of them being directly funded by the Silk Road Fund, one expressway and an industrial zone”. He added that Azad Kashmir was a peaceful territory, with the lowest crime rate and highest educational score in Pakistan.

The seminar was hosted by Dr Werner Fasslabend, former defense minister and president of AIES, and co-hosted by Austria National Defense Academy and the Universal Peace Federation that were represented by Brigadier Walter Feichtinger and Mr Peter Haider respectively.

(The writer is a business consultant and analyst and Group Editor of PKonweb.com and DesPardes.com – His articles, reports and analyses also appear in Jeddah-based Al-Bilad English Daily and UAE-based Caravan Daily)



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[Sqn. Ldr(R) Abdul Basit]

I think Geostrategic and Geo economic are interlinked. one cannot be understood without the other one.

 

[Safriz]

I think Geostrategic and Geo economic are interlinked. one cannot be understood without the other one.

welcome

 

[BATMAN]

I think destroying relations with GCC was the biggest geoeconomic and geostrategic set back for Pakistan.

As well, Middleast and east African countries are the potential CPEC markets.

 

[American Pakistani]

I think destroying relations with GCC was the biggest geoeconomic and geostrategic set back for Pakistan.

As well, Middleast and east African countries are the potential CPEC markets.

They destroyed the relations themselves by snubbing pakistan on Kashmir, kicking pakistani diaspora, granting highest medals to Bharti terrorists and pulling our legs in FATF.

 

[PAKISTANFOREVER]

I think destroying relations with GCC was the biggest geoeconomic and geostrategic set back for Pakistan.

As well, Middleast and east African countries are the potential CPEC markets.

There is NOTHING the GCC can do for Pakistan. We are not their mercenaries to go around killing innocent Yemeni men, women and children.

 

[BATMAN]

There is NOTHING the GCC can do for Pakistan. We are not their mercenaries to go around killing innocent Yemeni men, women and children.

Do you evidence of your claim?

They destroyed the relations themselves by snubbing pakistan on Kashmir, kicking pakistani diaspora, granting highest medals to Bharti terrorists and pulling our legs in FATF.

This is pdf propaganda and sectarianism that has been promoted here against Arabs during the past 15 years.

 

[PAKISTANFOREVER]

Do you evidence of your claim?


This is pdf propaganda and sectarianism that has been promoted here against Arabs during the past 15 years.

So what are the Gulfis going to do for us?......make us Pakistanis as scientifically and technologically advanced as the White European or Far Eastern races are? Make us have as many nukes as the Americans and Russians have? Make Pakistan a superpower like China?

 

[BATMAN]

So what are the Gulfis going to do for us?......make us Pakistanis as scientifically and technologically advanced as the White European or Far Eastern races are? Make us have as many nukes as the Americans and Russians have? Make Pakistan a superpower like China?

I asked you, DO YOU have evidence of your accusations?
BTW you are not the first one, ask around officials would be most willing to support you in providing you evidence.

 

[PAKISTANFOREVER]

I asked you, DO YOU have evidence of your accusations?
BTW you are not the first one, ask around officials would be most willing to support you in providing you evidence.

Sure they are, because those Gulfis are a superpower and are more scientifically and technologically advanced than even the White and Far Eastern races............

 

[BATMAN]

Sure they are, because those Gulfis are a superpower and are more scientifically and technologically advanced than even the White and Far Eastern races............

Where is the evidence of your claim ?

 

[PAKISTANFOREVER]

Where is the evidence of your claim ?

I'm wrong, you're right. The Gulfis are the master race that Adolf Hitler talked about. The Gulfis invented the internet, computers, space travel, cars, light bulbs, satellites, modern communications, fighter jets, jet engines, aeroplanes, tanks, trains, submarines etc.........

 

[nahtanbob]

There is NOTHING the GCC can do for Pakistan. We are not their mercenaries to go around killing innocent Yemeni men, women and children.

without Saudi help and expatriate earnings in the GCC states Pakistan would be looking at 30% decline in living standards

 

[PAKISTANFOREVER]

without Saudi help and expatriate earnings in the GCC states Pakistan would be looking at 30% decline in living standards

Sure we will. If you also believe that india has been a superpower since 2012, that the iaf killed exactly 350 terrorists in Balakot and shot down an F-16.......

 

[American Pakistani]

This is pdf propaganda and sectarianism that has been promoted here against Arabs during the past 15 years.

So why are you part of this propaganda group? You should be on Arab forums.

P. S we don't need any other country's slaves we need Pakistanis who are patriots to Pakistan.

without Saudi help and expatriate earnings in the GCC states Pakistan would be looking at 30% decline in living standards

Here comes the Bharti clown hiding behind American flag.

There is NOTHING the GCC can do for Pakistan. We are not their mercenaries to go around killing innocent Yemeni men, women and children.

I think we should not trust neither Arab nor Iran nor any other Muslim country. None are our true allies unlike China and Turkeye.

We should still keep our relations and still try to win their support because in this age of globalization it is the international voting and support that counts. Plus we have a huge poor labor working in middle east. Unless pakistan doesn't become capable of providing jobs to its citizens we still have to keep relations normal and going instead of cutting them.