{"id":3453,"date":"2016-06-28T11:15:19","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T11:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/digitaldips.pk\/?p=3453"},"modified":"2016-06-28T11:16:50","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T11:16:50","slug":"china-pakistan-corridor-benefits-real-estate-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.digitaldips.pk\/index.php\/2016\/06\/28\/china-pakistan-corridor-benefits-real-estate-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"China-Pakistan Corridor Benefits Real Estate in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has not all been clear plain sailing for the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) but the completion date is close, for what is expected to be a great fillip for the region.\u00a0 The 3,000 km long passage that is built along the Pakistan -occupied Kashmir will enhance connectivity between the two countries. Rail, road, pipelines, and optical cable fiber network will modernize the region and will stimulate trade between China\u2019s Xinjiang province and Pakistan\u2019s Gwadar port. This will pave the way for easier access to China and its Silk Road.<\/p>\n<p>There were some disturbances though and protesters from both home and abroad made their feeling known. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/content\/986045.shtml\">In May Chinese workers were attacked<\/a> by a bomb allegedly by ethnic nationalists. The attack took place in the southern province of Sindh but was a low-intensity explosive. A pamphlet signed by the Sindhudesh Revolutionary Army was recovered from the scene of the crime.<\/p>\n<p>The $46 billion project is a core component of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/2\/e99ff7a8-0bd8-11e6-9456-444ab5211a2f.html#axzz4ClYkP3vr\">Silk Road<\/a> initiative, the primary foreign policy goal of China. New trade routes are opening and business between China and Europe has more than doubled in the last year. Local people are suspicious of China\u2019s motives wondering if they will see any tangible benefits. CPEC which seeks to strengthen energy, transport, the Gwadar port and industrial cooperation but will expand to cover finance, science, technology, and education.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Belt and Road is great for the country, already thousands of jobs have been created for Pakistani people and with greater transport infrastructure between north and south this will have a positive effect on real estate,\u201d said Saad Arshed, managing director of Lamudi Pakistan\u2014the online property portal. \u201cTravel distances between Kashgar and Lahore will be reduced and similarly Kashgar to Karachi, this will encourage buyers to search in alternative locations\u201d,\u00a0 said Arshed<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has not all been clear plain sailing for the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) but the completion date is close, for what is expected to be a great fillip for the region.\u00a0 The 3,000&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[186,181],"tags":[660,390,419],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitaldips.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3453"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitaldips.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitaldips.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitaldips.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitaldips.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitaldips.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3455,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitaldips.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3453\/revisions\/3455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitaldips.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitaldips.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitaldips.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitaldips.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}