Mushahid terms CPEC future project of Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: Chairman Parliamentary Committee on China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) Mushahid Hussain Syed Saturday said CPEC was a future project of Pakistan and it would provide equal benefits to all provinces.

Talking to PTV, he said CPEC would bring economic revolution in the country. He said international airport, hospitals, university and vocational training colleges had constructed in Gwadar. After completion of many power projects launched by the incumbent government under CPEC would help in overcoming energy crisis, he said and added that mining of Thar coal was underway which would further strengthen the national economy.

He said industrial zones would be established across the country as this project was focusing on construction of Gawador Port, industrial zones, western route and overcoming energy crisis. Syed Mushahid said, “We are achieving immediate results from CPEC as immense unemployed youth were doing job in the project.

Women are driving bulldozers in the project to contribute their services for the development of the country.” He said China is all weather friend of Pakistan and CPEC would create understanding and people to people contact between nations of two countries.

Commenting on parliamentary committee for CPEC, he said that members of the committee had visited many places to resolve reservations of the masses.

The Chief Ministers of four provinces had attended the meetings on CPEC and national consensus was already evolved in that regard, he added.