ISLAMABAD:

Pakistan could not benefit from the "game changer" China-Pakistan Economic Corridor and Chinese investors were forced to flee due to attempts by the previous government to scandalise their investments, said Minister for Planning Ahsan Iqbal on Tuesday.

Pakistan's economy missed many opportunities to take off and "we also have dropped the catch of game changer CPEC", said the minister while addressing an audience of hundreds of students. Iqbal used a cricket analogy to explain that the country had not been able to benefit from CPEC and blamed the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf for the failure. It was probably rare that a sitting senior cabinet minister admitted that CPEC objectives could not be achieved.

He was speaking during the inaugural session of the two-day DataFest Conference

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