CPEC offers new development model to global community: Pakistani expert

STORY: CPEC offers new development model to global community: Pakistani expert DATELINE: Oct. 5, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:59 LOCATION: Islamabad CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of Gwadar port 2. SOUNDBITE (English): VAQAR AHMED, Joint executive director at the Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan STORYLINE: The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) has fostered a new development model to the international community, said a Pakistani expert. The CPEC, launched in 2013, is a flagship project of the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative. It's a corridor linking the Gwadar port in southwestern Pakistan with Kashgar in northwest China, which highlights energy, transport and industrial cooperation. SOUNDBITE (English): VAQAR AHMED, Joint executive director at the Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan "I think first and foremost, what we need to see is that CPEC has given a new development model to the global community basically. The Chinese government comes in, not just with