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Pak reports over 1300 positive COVID-19 cases
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Mar 27 (ANI): More than 1,300 positive cases of novel coronavirus have been reported from Pakistan till now, with Sindh trailing behind the Punjab Province in tally.
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Amid COVID-19 outbreak, CPEC project should be halted: European think tank
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Amsterdam [Netherlands], (ANI) March 27 (ANI): Experts believe that amid a health crisis triggered by the rapidly spreading coronavirus, it is more important to focus on containing the infection rather than continuing with the development of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) which
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Expert warns of dark future for China's OBOR projects amid COVID-19 outbr
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Hong Kong, Mar 26 (ANI): China's much-publicised China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and the One Belt One Road (OBOR) initiative has a dark future as nations are blaming these projects and it's Chinese manpower for having contributed to the spread of coronavirus.
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COVID-19 continues to surge in Pak, battling crisis remains big concern
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Mar 25 (ANI): Nearly a month after reporting its first positive case of the novel coronavirus, Pakistan's nation-wide tally of positive cases surged past 1,000 on Wednesday leaving people of the country to deal with a mounting crisis.
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Coronavirus : Pak announces Rs 1.25 trillion package
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Mar 25 (ANI): In the backdrop of coronavirus pandemic, Pakistan government on Wednesday announced Rs 1.25 trillion package to keep the economy afloat. The package will grant relief to SMEs and daily wage workers.
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Pakistan's Opposition urges PM Imran to take crucial economic decisions
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Mar 25 (ANI): Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly and PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday urged Prime Minister Imran Khan to call a meeting of the Council of Common Interests (CCI) to address the current coronavirus outbreak.
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Pakistan may face economic loses of Rs 1.3 trillion due to Coronavirus
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Mar 23 (ANI): Pakistan's initial economic losses in different sectors of the country's economy have been estimated at Rs1.3 trillion in the wake of the novel coronavirus outbreak in the country.
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China's Belt and Road Initiative, CPEC are 'conduits for pandemics and not
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], Mar 21 (ANI): Amid the coronavirus outbreak, a leading Washington DC-based activist from Gilgit Baltistan has called on the international community to tell China to permanently discontinue mega projects like the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the China Pakistan Economic
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Gilgit-Baltistan facing COVID-19 outbreak threat, CPEC project hit
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Gilgit [PoK], Mar 20 (ANI): Gilgit-Baltistan, a Pakistan-occupied region bordering China, is facing a threat of the coronavirus outbreak as a large number of Chinese workers and Army personnel are present here because of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project.
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Is China's multi-billion dollar project in Pakistan facing a crisis?
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Hong Kong, Mar 8 (ANI): Almost seven years ago, Chinese President Xi Jinping had shared the planning of a massive China Pakistan Economic Corridor Projects (CPEC) linking its landlocked western region of Xinjiang to the Arabian Sea in a bid to venture into the West. But, even today, the v
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CPEC costs human life, resources in Balochistan: Activists at UN
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Geneva, Switzerland Mar 03 (ANI): Baloch political activists have alleged that the people in Balochistan are paying a heavy price for the multi-billion dollar China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).
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Pakistan invites US to invest in CPEC
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Feb 28 (ANI): A top Pakistani official stated that the United States has been invited to invest in projects of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), Beijing's multi-billion dollar project.
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