By Asim Yasin
THE INTERNATIONAL NEWS - August 17, 2016
ISLAMABAD: Chairman Parliamentary Committee on China-Pakistan
Economic Corridor (CPEC) Senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed announced
Tuesday that the next CPEC/Silk Road Forum, which has been held in the
past two years in the city of Karamay in Xinjiang province of China,
will have its 3rd international conference in Islamabad in August 2017.
Talking to the media on his return after attending the Silk Road
Forum in Karamay where Pakistan had a representation of over 50 persons
delegation Senator Mushahid said that the Silk Road Forum organised by
the international think tank, Research and Development International
(RDI), which is co-chaired from the Chinese side by prominent
parliamentary leader, Dr Zhao Baiga and on the Pakistan side by Senator
Mushahid Hussain Sayed, organised the last 2 forums in cooperation with
the central government of China and the provincial government of
Xinjiang, unanimously decided to hold the 3rd forum in Pakistan because
CPEC is the pilot and flagship project of the One Belt, One Road
initiative of President Xi Jinping.
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