Internal rifts emerge over approval of $6.7 billion ML-I project
Islamabad: The planning ministry has refuted Pakistan’s foreign ministry’s statement on the $6.7 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) Mainline-I (ML-I) project, claiming that the National Economic Council Executive Committee (ECNEC) did not delay approving the system last week. In a highly unusual move, the Ministry of Planning disputed the official statement issued by the Ministry of External Affairs after the ECNEC meeting. Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar chaired the ECNEC meeting last week. “To clarify, ECNEC has not postponed the approval of ML-1 project under CPEC,” Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal’s office said. The release added that there
