What Does China-Pakistan New Bus Service via J & K Eyes For?
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If China's all parts or even a couple of parts of this huge project gets success it will benefit China with trillions of dollars of trade and this story is dealing with one such part of Belt and Road project which passes through India's J & K to Pakistan and without informing to India about it. China wants few cities like Gwadar to be built like commercial hub no less than any other developed city of UAE or other Middle East country.
But this route of which first phase is to start a long route 30 hour bus service challenges India's sovereignty and India has launched a strong protest on this.
China’s one Belt one Road(OBOR),of which CPEC forms a significant part will be now launching a bus service connecting Xinjiang in its south west ,china with Lahore in Pakistan passing through Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) on November 13 under the china Pakistan economic corridor(CPEC) project ,which India has opposed.
The bus service is a part of $50 billion CPEC project. The luxury bus service will run between Lahore’s Gulberg area in Pakistan to Kashgar in china .The 30 hour journey will cost 13000 Pakistani rupees i.e INR Rs. 7,189 & will operated 4 times a week .Some reports says the launch is on 3 November 2018 while the other have given out 13 November 2018 as due date .CPEC is a planned network of road ,railway and energy projects linking china’s resource rich Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region with Pakistan’s Gwadar portion the Arabian sea .while the new bus service will be increasing ties between Pakistan and china but India has registered strong opposition against the project as the route of the bus service passes through the Indian territory.
Raveesh Kumar spokesperson of MEA said the proposed bus service violates India’s sovereignty and territorial integrity .He also said that India’s consistent and well known position is that the so called china-Pakistan Boundary Agreement of 1963 is illegal and invalid and has never been recognized by the Government of India. Pakistan’s only link to china is through PoK Gligit-Baltistan region which is a part of J&K state of India.
When asked about India’s protest, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Lu Kang said that he was not aware of India’s diplomatic stance on this matter .He also said that “It is an economic cooperation project between china and Pakistan and not targeted at any third party. It has nothing to do with the territorial dispute and it will not affect China’s principled position on the issue of Kashmir.”
India and China who had been in war in 1963 has come in eyeball to eyeball at many occasion but current proposed bus service will only escalate the tension between two neighboring countries.
(Ratnesh Dwivedi is India born Academic and Journalist currently engaged as Associate Professor of Journalism at Institute of Management Studies,Noida,India. Zainab Mohtaram is first year undergrad of Journalism with natural writing flavors and this is her first write for an International Platform)
Ratnesh Dwivedi transferred his skills of media industry in to his passion for writing and teaching. He has seen changing face of Indian media as a struggler and budding media professional.Later he switched in to academics and love to be categorized as a prolific writer,analyst and academician. He has been teaching to graduate and post graduate students of Media and Communication in Indian Universities and Institutions for past thirteen years,however he specializes in Broadcast Journalism. He has been associated with Amity University,where he led a project to set up Community Radio Station and TV Studio apart from his teaching assignment.He is widely published academician in the field of Media and Communication with nearly 30 publications and presentation in countries like Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Germany, Slovinia, Chzeck, Britain, USA and India with nearly 7000 downloads, which itself is a record. He has authored five books. The Story of an Intern is a reportage book of struggle of an Intern in big bad media world, while The Cosmic Mask is a compilation of nine space fiction stories which he self published with an Amazon company.Third and fourth are awarded academic books. His fifth book on US Intelligence and Cost of War is in print. He frequently comments and write on Global Affairs.He is Charter member of Bush Center,Texas,Chapter Member of Internet Society,Virginia, Institute of English Studies, University of London , member with world's largest media professionals organizations like ECREA, Brussels and RTDNA,Wash,D.C. He is also member with intelligence think tank Mission Essential, Virginia, and Carnegie Council's Global Ethics Network, NY, USA. He has attended NASA workshops & courses and conducts NASA's essay contest in Indian Schools. He is Research Manager with a China based IPR firm. He lives in New Delhi with his wife and son.
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