Raisani terms CPEC illusion.

KARACHI -- Terming China Pakistan Economic Corridor as an illusion and fake agreement, central leader of Balochistan National Party (BNP) Haji Lashkari Raisani Tuesday said had it been a financial game-changer for the country, Prime Minister would not have been begging for money and financial assistance from others.

'Not a single brick of CPEC has been laid so far in Balochistan and it is a fake agreement. Had there been an investment of 52 billion dollars in Pakistan under CPEC, our prime minister would not have been wandering here and there, begging for money,' Laskari Raisani said while speaking at Meet the Press Program of Karachi Press Club (KPC) here on Tuesday.

On his arrival at Karachi Press Club (KPC), BNP leader was given a warm welcome by Secretary KPC Maqsood Yousufi, President Ahmed Khan Malik, Joint Secretary Naimat Khan, member GB Saeed Sarbazi and Naeem Sahotra, while senior journalist and eminent poet AH Khanzada recited his poem eulogising the martyrdom of Nawabzada Siraj Raisani who was killed in a suicide attack a few months back.

Lashkari Raisani expressed concern over growing 'interference' of establishment in the political process and efforts to deprive people of their resources, saying efforts were underway to reverse 18th amendment, which gives a little financial autonomy to provinces but vowed that these efforts and conspiracies would be resisted by people of all the provinces.

'We are being told that after 18th amendment, provinces have not built their capacity but I question how much capacity building has been done by the Centre since creation of Pakistan. Who is responsible for the destruction of PIA, Pakistan Steel Mills, Wapda and Pakistan Railways which remained in the...