China,  Pakistan resolute in pushing forward CPEC construction, says Zhao Lijian BEIJING, Dec 28 – China Monday shrugged away media claims suggesting that Beijing wanted additional guarantees from Pakistan government for releasing additional funds for Main Line-I (ML-I) Railway rehabilitation project. Chinese Foreign Ministry’s Spokesperson Zhao Lijian told a media briefing that certain media reports as ‘simply baseless’. China and …

ISLAMABAD – Minister for Planning & Development Makhdum Khusro Bakhtiyar Friday partially admitted that the federal government had divert any funding from China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and reports regarding diverting Rs 24 billion from the CPEC allocation to parliamentarians for public sector development projects (PSDP) was wrong. Talking to media here, the minister said that the federal government had diverted …