Heh.
With nothing in mind, may I bring the beneficial effects of Eno's Fruit Salts to the notice of members?
Hmm well as amazing as ENO is. I would frankly doubt the head lines ad sensationalism that is being presented.
In the last week
Pakistan is trying to get DB dam in CPEC so Pakistan is becoming a colony.
Pakistan said NO to china's demands so the relationship and project has fallen apart.
China is bending to our pressure and is leaving GB and azad Kashmir.
Quite frankly asinine is how Indian media has been covering CPEC SBD its interest in pak-china dealing has been far more than some serious domestic issues.
OK. Let's get to Tue thread.
The CPEC is based on two corridor named western corridor crossing Baluchistan and kpk and gilgit baltistan connecting to kashgar xingiang and the eastern corridor which goes through Baluchistan to east in sindh then to Punjab and then connecting with the western point in gilgit baltistan and then to kashgar Xinjiang.
Apart from these road and rail networks, we have the spread projects which are energy, economic zones and developmental infrastructure.
Both regions of azad Kashmir and FATA do not fall within the "direct road network part" and are focused more in Economic zones and critical infrastructure along with creations of road to link FATA with western corridor and azad Kashmir with eastern corridor.
The thing is the change requiring the exclusion of gilgit baltistan is basically impossible. Not only would china have to pull out of several ongoing projects in that region but would have to change the very aspect of CPEC which would make it subservient to India rather than a direct trade with pakistan and china. Bcz the route to satisfy Indian objection would basically have eastern and western corridor connecting in lahore and going through lahore into India and then to china through its pathway.
I think what the diplomat meant ( if he even stated that) was to connect the Indian administered Kashmir with the CPEC by creating a new corridor crossing through azad Kashmir into IAK and then reaching eastern china for trade.
This would not be a bad call Joe as it would connect the regions more, increase trade with Pakistan and bind the three nations together and plus the eastern china would cut through India to connect to gawader as well as connect with gawadet through xingiang which would see the region of Xinjiang develop and pakistan and India and china would benefit with a three way trade through a corridor connecting their most developed regions.
However this won't happen.
And since it won't happen there is little point in discussing it so let us once more talk about the amazing effects of ENO fruit salts.
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