A NUMBER of news items, articles and opinions expressed in these esteemed pages show that Pakistan and China have indeed entered a new era of cooperation, which is eminent from the $36 billion deals made.
I read the Sunday issue (Dec 19) and ironically failed to find any specific details about the ‘deals’ which have been reached between the two nations.
Thinking aloud, as in exactly who got all the business generated by this business summit? Which companies will be given the contracts for all the sectors mentioned? How will this actually happen: in the form of projects or industries or what?
Have any time lines been developed as to when these projects (or whatever) will be completed? How many jobs will be created and, more importantly, where? How this huge amount of money (much greater than US cooperation in recent history) will trickle down to the masses?
How will I and my colleagues, who are qualified and without a job, benefit from all this which is happening in our own economy?
Still wondering, and thinking aloud, why could not our media raise such questions as to how this macro-economic injection will affect the economy? How will the created jobs change the lives of our people?
What sort of skilled workforce will be required, and what measures are to be taken so that the domestic work force is optimally utilised and no jobs are lost to expatriates? KHAWAR ALI SHER Islamabad
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