Senate committee on CPEC expresses annoyance over absence of federal minister.

ISLAMABAD -- Senate Special Committee on CPEC has expressed annoyance over absence of federal minister in the meeting while meeting has been postponed under protest.

Committee met in parliament house on Wednesday under senator Shireen Rehman and was attended by Senator Sikandar Meendhro, Senator Azam Swati, senator Javed Abbasi, Senator Nuzhat Sadiq and other members.

Chairperson committee Senator Shireen Rehman while expressing her reservations over non presence of federal minister Khusro Bakhtiar in the meeting said if the ministry cannot give time and importance to the committee then how it will run the project.

She said if the federal minister could not come then he should have informed us in writing. This committee is basic part of the project.

She held what job should have been done by the government is being done by Chinese government.

Chinese government called all the political parties of Pakistan and made consultations with them over CPEC. It is job of government of Pakistan and not Chinese government to make consultations with the political parties of Pakistan. There is enormous lack of transparency on the part of government in CPEC...