GWADAR: Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal on Saturday said China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) would allow Pakistan to become a hub of socio-economic activity between Asia, Central Asia and South Asia. Addressing the 1st All Pakistan Chambers and Associations Seminar on CPEC at Gwadar, he said that inter and intra region connectivity provided by CPEC makes it a fate changer for everyone because connectivity ensures greater trade, socioeconomic activity and general welfare. He said CPEC presents an opportunity to Pakistan to grab major of share of the available jobs which could help employ the unemployed surplus labour.The minister said CPEC had allowed Pakistan to transform Pak-China geo-strategic relations into geo-economic for the first time in the History. Ahsan Iqbal said CPEC was further allowing Pakistan to embrace the shift the world saw in 20th Century from geo-politics to geo-economics. The Minister said timely efforts and mega investments in energy sector under CPEC were drastically increasing Pakistan’s capacity to produce energy. Ahsan Iqbal hoped that CPEC could be materialised as a tool of inclusive growth where the people of Pakistan could be the subjects of the development process. NNI
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