Islamabad, Nov 13 (PTI) In a rare admission, a senior minister has acknowledged that Pakistan could not benefit from the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor and Chinese investors were forced to flee due to attempts by the previous government to scandalise their investments.

Pakistan's economy missed many opportunities to take off, and "we also have dropped the catch of game changer CPEC," Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal was quoted as saying by The Express Tribune newspaper.

The USD 60 billion CPEC connecting China's Xinjiang with Pakistan's Gwadar port in Balochistan is regarded as the flagship project of the multi-billion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), the pet scheme of Chinese President Xi Jinping, aimed at furthering China's influence globally with Chinese-funded infrastructure pro

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