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January 2017 NEWS COVERAGE PERIOD from JANUARY 23RD to JANUARY 30TH 2017 PAKISTAN SHOULD EQUIP WORKFORCE for CPEC CHALLENGES the Express Tribune, January 23Rd, 2017 The Globalization Bulletin CPEC January 2017 NEWS COVERAGE PERIOD FROM JANUARY 23RD TO JANUARY 30TH 2017 PAKISTAN SHOULD EQUIP WORKFORCE FOR CPEC CHALLENGES The Express Tribune, January 23rd, 2017. Ikram Hoti ISLAMABAD: Is the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) really a fate changer? Yes, if everything goes according to the plan. But what is the plan? And how it is implemented? These two questions are important as doubts of smaller provinces about the real CPEC road map have started subsiding. Reservations of these provinces may not be well-founded. Their leaders might be indulging in acrimonious politics. But what actually is in this project that may help to change the economic game in Pakistan and the entire region and how it is going to be realised? These are the issues that need to be technically raised. However, the Panama Papers leaks case against the prime minister and his family could prevent an insight into the two issues. A lot depends on the success or failure of CPEC. If it fails, Pakistan won’t be able to have a chance to reap even half of the benefits of CPEC. If it succeeds, the country might not only be economically strong but it will also be able to get rid of many monstrous forces it has had to endure over the past seven decades. In order to succeed, a complete rebirth of the political, cultural, economic and intellectual Pakistan is needed. This entails a change in the social and structural course, which starts not in factories and workshops, but in the quarters holding actual power. It needs a change in the constitution, laws, procedures, money-related behaviour of the entire state, business houses, the big agricultural class and the mainstream demography. Consultants in Karachi and Islamabad who have experience of assisting in mega projects indicate that China might accomplish as much as it aspires if only 10% of the existing Pakistani political, cultural, economic and intellectual energy is refocused on the CPEC project. But, they say, Pakistan cannot accomplish even 20% of what is due from CPEC if it does not multiply its political, cultural, economic and intellectual energy between 2017 and 2020. What does Pakistan need to multiply this energy in these four years? Pakistan needs to equip its labour and their supervisors with the latest techniques of construction from mapping to carpeting of roads. The Globalization Bulletin CPEC Once the roads, spread over 3,000 km under CPEC, are built, the next phase will be to develop the water and power infrastructure along these roads. Time is of prime essence. Has Pakistan started equipping its workforce for the purpose? Business houses in Pakistan need to enter into joint ventures with Chinese and other foreign entrepreneurs not after the roads are constructed, but long before that. Businesses compete for opportunities to succeed ahead of the opportunity becomes too obvious. In this competition, they need to win supply contracts for the construction material and the technical assistance they can offer for the initiation of work on CPEC projects. Have the Board of Investment (BoI), Federal Board of Revenue (FBR), ministries of commerce and industries, Planning Commission and Ministry of Finance begun coordinated efforts for the purpose? An Islamabad-based business development consultant pointed out the other day that expert sessions on CPEC, conducted by private sector institutions so far, focused only on the macro issues and missed the micro matters, which were more important as far as CPEC success for Pakistan is concerned. In the end, the most important question is: Has the government initiated a training course for technical orientation of CPEC-related ministries and the private sector on the micro issues? Not yet. When does it plan to initiate it? No one knows. Officials of the BoI, FBR, ministries of commerce and industries, Planning Commission and Ministry of Finance are completely dumb about the challenges posed by the micro issues relating to the CPEC time frame. These are, let me say, signs of a planning failure, not of success. The writer has worked with major newspapers and specialises in the analysis of public finance and geo-economics of terrorism http://tribune.com.pk/story/1303766/pakistan-equip-workforce-cpec-challenges/ PROTECTING THE CORRIDOR : SPECIAL SECURITY FORCE FOR CPEC NOTIFIED: REPORT The Express Tribune, January 23rd, 2017. ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Interior is learnt to have issued a notification for establishing the Special Security Division (SSD) for protecting the $55 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). According to details on the state-run Radio Pakistan’s website, the SSD would involve raising nine army battalions and six civilian wings with 13,700 personnel. After the Planning Division requisitioned from the provinces, deployment orders shall be issued by the Ministry of Interior, it added. However, this notification is yet to be confirmed by the Ministry of Interior. The Globalization Bulletin CPEC China has already expressed satisfaction over security arrangements during the sixth Joint Cooperation Committee meeting held in Beijing, the state-run radio maintained. The nine composite battalions of SSD will have 9,229 personnel while six wings of civilian armed forces will have 4,502 personnel. Terms of references of SSD had already been sent to provinces/special regions for requisitioning armed forces/civilian armed forces under Articles 147 and 245 of the Constitution and Anti-Terrorism Act of 1997, it is further learnt. Briefing a parliamentary panel in August last year, officials of the ministry of defence stated that SSD had been entrusted to protect Chinese workers and projects under the CPEC. Officials informed the committee that the government had also allocated Rs1.3 billion for CPEC security in addition to efforts of provincial governments. The cost of raising the SSD was Rs500 million and it took a year to be raised, officials maintained during the briefing. CPEC is intended to rapidly expand and upgrade Pakistani infrastructure, besides deepening and broadening economic links between Pakistan and China. First trade activity took place through CPEC on November 13 last year, when cargo from China was transported to ships at Gwadar Port, for markets in West Asia and Africa. The CPEC involves 3,000-kilometre-long network of roads, railways and pipelines to transport oil and gas besides energy projects between Gwadar Port and Kashgar in China’s Xinjiang region. Proposed by Chinese Premier Li Keqiang during his visit to Pakistan in May 2013, the CPEC is expected to act as a bridge for the new maritime route that envisages linking three billion people in Asia, Africa and Europe. There are 12 energy projects under CPEC which are expected to add 5,000 megawatts of electricity to the national grid by 2017-18. Similarly, the transport infrastructure under CPEC consists of rail-based mass transit system, railways, new provincial projects and new Gwadar projects. Rail-based mass transit system includes Karachi Circular Railway, Greater Peshawar Mass Transit and Quetta Mass Transit. The projects also include upgrading Pakistan Railways ML-1 and establishment of a dry port at Havelian. http://tribune.com.pk/story/1303994/protecting-corridor-special-security-force-cpec-notified-report/ ‘FC READY TO FOIL ENEMY DESIGNS AGAINST CPEC’ The Express Tribune, January 26th, 2017. Aamir Ilyas Rana Quetta: Frontier Corps Balochistan stands ready to foil any nefarious designs on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), the chief of the paramilitary force has said. The Globalization Bulletin CPEC “We are fully prepared to foil enemies’ nefarious designs to sabotage CPEC through terrorism and controversies as the civil-military set-up is working hand in hand for the country’s development,” Inspector General FC Balochistan Maj Gen Nadeem Ahmed Anjum told The Express Tribune. “FC Balochistan has been playing a pivotal role in the fight against terrorism. Its officials and soldiers have rendered great sacrifices in the line of duty to counter ulterior designs of enemies such as India and Israel ,” he said, adding that due to the force’s efforts to enhance the lives of the Baloch people, those who had been exploited by Pakistan’s enemies have started to surrender and return to the national mainstream. Maj Gen Nadeem said his force is conducting operations in Balochistan in order to save the province’s residents from the ill-intentions of Pakistan’s enemies. He said the FC is conducting operations against those who attack railway lines, power stations and school vans. He said the FC is serving the people of Balochistan in multiple ways. “FC-run institutions in Balochistan are providing education to thousands of children in the province. We are also running a huge network of medical facilities across Balochistan,” the IGFC said. He stressed that the youth of Balochistan is the province’s future. “It is imperative to raise their potential to the optimal level so that they can shoulder the onerous responsibilities that await them.” “It is important to make the youth of this great province partners in peace and prosperity. FC efforts aim to bridge the gap between the state and youth including small discontented segments, lured by vague slogans and elusive dreams,” the IGFC added. Maj Gen Nadeem pointed out that 250 Baloch cadets were among the 2,200 being trained at the Pakistan Military Academy (PMA). He said these young officers would a play vital role in ensuring peace and prosperity in Pakistan. The IGFC paid tribute to paramilitary officers and troopers who sacrificed their lives to restore law and order in Balochistan. http://tribune.com.pk/story/1307074/corridor-security-fc-ready-foil-enemy-designs-cpec/ CPEC: ANOTHER MARSHALL PLAN? The Express Tribune, January 26th, 2017. Shaukat Qadir Following the aborted attempt by an Indian submarine to penetrate Gwadar in November last year, two Chinese ships have been handed over to the Pakistan Navy by their Chinese counterparts for “the security of Gwadar”.
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