Daily Times

Sir: Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Reforms Ahsan Iqbal has answered all the ambiguities about the route of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), saying there is no controversy and speculations are based on misunderstanding. I would like to request educated nationalists to kindly not mislead people by publicising inaccurate details about this mega project. We should not project false propagated theories. We should not trivialise the seriousness of the issue. The network of multiple roads, which no doubt has immense importance, will go from Gwadar to Khunjerab. One of the routes is through Gwadar up to Quetta, Quetta to Qilla Saifullah, Zhob, Dera Ismail Khan and Peshawar. The second route will be Gwadar to Ratodero, Sukkur and the Indus Highway. The third route will be Gwadar to Sukkur, Sukkur to Karachi and Lahore to Peshawar Motorway. So there will be multiple routes, which will all come under the umbrella of the CPEC.

AGHA ZAIN LEHRI
Islamabad