ISLAMABAD – Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs Chairman MushahidHussain Syed has claimed that Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General QamarJaved Bajwa had to go to China “to control the situation” after PakistanTehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) ministers “levelled baseless allegations” against theChina-Pakistan Economic Corridor-related (CPEC) projects.
Referring to the accusations made by Minister for Communication Murad Saeedregarding alleged mismanagement in CPEC projects, Syed said not even asingle rupee corruption had been proven, adding that former planningminister Ahsan Iqbal “should take Murad to court” over his conduct.
Responding to Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asia Alice Wells’statement that CPEC would push the country deeper into an already stiflingdebt burden, Syed said it was indeed deplorable that the US is opposing thegame-changer project.
The seasoned politician noted that the project was not aimed at defence,however, it did have various strategic implications.
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Syed observed that CPEC had a central position in the Sino-Pak strategicrelationship and maintained that the PTI leadership should be very carefulin giving statements about the flagship projects as they were not fullyaware of the sensitivities attached to it.
“China has no link with attempts to subjugate right to freedom inPakistan,” he said.
