Protecting CPEC.

THIS is apropos the news item 'CPEC to push Pakistan deeper into debt burden, cautions US' (Nov 23). Pakistan should preserve, protect and complete the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project as it is in our national interests.

But we must also continue to develop better, broader and deeper economic and trading ties with the US. It is inevitable that the Sino-US competition and rivalry will gather pace in the coming competitive times.

We must diversify and broaden our interests and ties with all important regions i.e., the US, the West, the Arab-Islamic world, China and its allies, and, of course, Russia and Central...