Summary Our urge for peace should not considered mistaken for our weakness, Ahsan clears out
LAHORE (Dunya News) - Federal Minister for Planning and Development Chaudhry Ahsan Iqbal has said that we are already an atomic power and it’s time to become an economic power now.
He expressed this while adressing a function at University of the Punjab.
The Federal Minister cleared out that India could create hurdles in our economic development through generating war-like environment; however our urge for peace should not be mistaken for our weakness.
Ahsan Iqbal let it be known that China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is equivalent to the atomic program and that the corridor is extremely vital for our economic autonomy.
He also expressed that politicizing CPEC needs to be stopped.
PML-N leader also professed that CPEC does not belong merely to China and Pakistan and it is for the development of the whole region.
Ahsan Iqbal let it be known that rights of any particular province would be usurped in CPEC project.
