2021-04-16 01:35:57 GMT2021-04-16 09:35:57(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
ISLAMABAD, April 16 (Xinhua) A special economic zone (SEZ) being constructed in Pakistan s northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) will create over 200,000 job opportunities for the locals, an official from the province has said.
Chief Executive Officer of the state-owned Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Economic Zones Development and Management Company Javed Khattak told media on Thursday that the Rashakai SEZ in the province is prioritized as a special economic park spreading over an area of about 1,000 acres near the provincial capital of Peshawar.
The SEZ, a milestone of the implementation of industrial cooperation under the CPEC framework, will become an important trade hub, Khattak said.
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ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday said his government’s flagship Sehat Card Scheme would bring about a revolution in the health sector besides providing universal health coverage to people, particularly the poor and the needy.
“The universal health coverage would … protect the poor against economic fallout of contracting a disease,” he said while addressing the launching ceremony of online services of the Pakistan Medical Commission (PMC).
The prime minister said even developed states did not provide full healthcare coverage to their citizens but Pakistan was moving towards full universal health coverage despite its limited resources.
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US president Bill Clinton, on the eve of his visit to the subcontinent in March 2000, called the Line of Control (LOC) that divides the state of Jammu and Kashmir between Pakistan and India “the most dangerous place in the world”. The LOC, notwithstanding the recent ceasefire, remains in perpetual state of conflict. Barely making news it has the potential of a major conflagration between the two nuclear armed states. With the Chinese and the US positions known, the South Asian region poses a bigger risk of a military conflict between China and the US through their allies.
On way to becoming the world’s leading economy, China is naturally driven by aspirations of international leadership. While the American military deployment in the western Pacific is a constraint, a resurgent China needs assured energy supplies and passage for its produce into the Indian Ocean and beyond without being bottled in by the Malacca Strait between Malaysia and Singapore.
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