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Topic: CPEC

Businesses in Pakistan worried that China is ‘eating up their economy’

Here's what's happening across the border: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's first female driver was murdered, and the Hazara community of Quetta is protesting against their targeted killing.

Relax, India. There’s a bigger China bet than Pakistan

Even though China has pledged the largest sum to Pakistan for CPEC, Malaysia has quietly raced ahead of the pack in securing Chinese money for infrastructure projects. 

Pakistan’s unprecedented budget that focuses on CPEC more than anything else

Here's what is happening across the border: In a week of many firsts, Punjab University gets first woman V-C in 136 years, and an open court in Peshawar for the Sikhs.

In between lakeside lunches, Modi should tell Xi that India wants peace on the border

India has objected to CPEC passing through POK. China will have to reciprocate our stand on ‘One China’ policy and terminate CPEC project.

China will take over the world, one port at a time

New research suggests China’s port investments as part of the Belt and Road Initiative are aimed at generating political influence and military presence in the Indo-Pacific.

Arranged marriages are old school, Pakistan now has ‘CPEC marriages’

There is a new cultural wave afoot in Pakistan because of the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).

One Belt, One Road, One Thrashing: How China took Pakistan hostage

As the United States draws closer to India, Pakistan has come to regard China as a life-support machine.

Pakistani citizens come together to donate and reunite long-distance couple

Here’s what’s happening across the border: Pakistani advertising sees growing Chinese influence, Karachi sweats amid 'power tussle'. Long-distance married couple set up crowdfunding campaign to...

Step aside Arabic, now Mandarin is the new ‘English medium’ in Pakistan

I can speak Pashtu but I can’t write it, I pray in Arabic but I can’t speak it, my English and Urdu requires finesse. And now add Mandarin to the list.

Why India can no longer afford an ambiguous policy vis-à-vis China

Deterring China has been a gradual work in progress since 2014, with concern replacing fear as the primary driver in strategy formulation.

On Camera

There’s a method in Trump’s Pakistan romance. It’s all about Gulf security

Like Turkey and Egypt, Pakistan is one of a handful of powers with the human resources and infrastructure to help secure the Persian Gulf as Trump’s America draws down its military presence.

Go Swadeshi—RSS affiliate SJM calls for boycott of US firms Amazon, Walmart after Trump’s tariff hike

New Delhi: The day after the US imposed a 50 percent trade tariff on India, RSS affiliate Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) has made an...

Legacy of Air Chief Marshal LM Katre, the man who flew Spitfires & ushered IAF into a modern era

ACM Katre was 2nd IAF chief to die in harness. It was at a memorial lecture in his honour where IAF chief AP Singh revealed that India shot down 6 Pakistani aircraft in Op Sindoor.

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.