The recently announced India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor project linking India with markets in the Middle East and Europe was the highlight of the G20 summit this year. The new corridor represents half the global economy and 40% of the world’s population.
A surge in religious-nationalist militancy is turning Pakistans province of Balochistan into a new hot-bed of armed conflict, with waves of new violence aimed to hit the governments plan to bring a wave of development through the China-backed Gwadar Port project