Pakistan to showcase projects

Islamabad: Pakistan would showcase as many projects as possible during upcoming visit of Chinese President XI Jinping who would lay foundation stone for multi-billion mega projects related to energy, power, highways and roads, sources said here on Tuesday.
Sources said Pakistan and China have made a number of diplomatic contacts in last few days and now it has been decided that the Chinese president would visit the sites and lay foundation stones of mega projects.
A senior government official who attended some of the meetings held in last few days confided to this correspondent that Pakistan and China have also hoped that the visit of the Chinese president would usher in the most crucial implementation phase of the mega projects worth billions of dollars.
Talking to this scribe, Minister for Planning and Development Ahsan Iqbal said now Pakistan and China would enter into a new phase of mutual cooperation as both countries would focus on implementation of the projects that would help Pakistan resolve some of its basic issues.
“The Chinese president would definitely lay foundation stone of mega projects but at the moment it is yet to decide which one and how many projects would be showcased during his upcoming visit to Pakistan,” he said.
To a question, he said the date for the visit of the Chinese president has so far not been fixed but when the two countries would decide about it then it would immediately be made public from the official forum.