PTI ministers’ statements on CPEC: Gen Bajwa had to visit China to control situation

LAHORE: Chairman Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs Mushahid Hussain Sayed has said that the Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa had to go to China to control the situation after Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) ministers levelled baseless allegations regarding the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) projects.

Speaking to Saleem Safi in Geo News programme ‘Jirga’ on Sunday, he said it was regrettable that the US openly opposed the CPEC initiative. He said the project is not aimed for defence purposes, though it has various strategic implications.

Mushahid said China had no link with attempts to subjugate right to freedom in Pakistan. He said it is unfortunate that every upcoming government in Pakistan tries to take credit of the projects launched during the past governments. He said Minister Murad Saeed’s allegations

about corruption in CPEC projects were really unfortunate. He said not a single rupee corruption was proved in any CPEC project, and PML-N’s Ahsan Iqbal should take Murad Saeed to a court of law over such allegations.

The PML-N senator said that CPEC had central position in the Pak-China strategic relationship. He said the PTI leadership should be very careful in giving statements about the CPEC projects as they were not full aware of the sensitivities attached with it.