This is apropos a Business Recorder news item "PM reviews progress on CPEC" carried by the newspaper yesterday. According to it, the meeting reviewed at length the benchmarks set for numerous energy, transport infrastructure and industrial projects in terms of deliverables with a particular focus on development of Gwadar Port along with socio-economic uplift projects in Gwadar.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has been quoted as saying, "Pakistan's economy was in shambles in 2013 when the present government came into power; it was China that supported and helped us in the economic revival at such crucial juncture for which the government and people of Pakistan are indebted to the Chinese leadership and people of China. The visionary Chinese leadership supported us in translating the idea of CPEC into reality."
Little does the prime minister, however, know that Deng Xiaoping, who is known for putting China on the path of progress and prosperity, built up his country's economy by taking full advantage of the fact that a Communist China had already ensured one hundred percent literacy and healthcare for its people despite the disastrous effects of Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution. Insofar as Pakistan is concerned, our successive governments have done only very little in the areas of universal health and education.
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