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Told ya, he is probably waiting has his dick in his hand in anticipation of the next Indian movie. :thoo:


@Dovah Nah man. Goats are his thing and he knows where to get them.
 

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Look, our actors are still not banned and your directors are begging to our top cast actors to work in our bollywood projects, here are the two one male and another female top two cast Pakistani actors working in this recent upcoming films :lol:

Hahahahahahahaha. Bhikhari lollywood. Baighairat kaum.
 

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cheap labour question to be asked why pakistan still shamelessly wants to be indian movies, serials and wants there indian male to be taken by gay directors and there female as sex slave to indian heroes

why no arabic or chinese industry or local lollywood and this is what indian muslim girl do to them:

sohaib malik: trophy husband and wife still an indian

renna roy : married took divorce and humilated mazhar and destroyed his career

adnan sami : son of a top diplomat became indian citizen

salma agha: becomes indian citizen


rehat ali khan : caught smuggling in india but still around

this should not be an embarassment to us but to you because india had a nepali(manisha), srilankan(jaquelin), bangladeshi and other actors ,for economic front they are cheap labours
 
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cheap labour question to be asked why pakistan still shamelessly wants to be indian movies, serials and wants there indian male to be taken by gay directors and there female as sex slave to indian actors

why no arabic or chinese industry
Because they are a bhadwa people with no self respect and dignity.
 

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You unpadh jahil gawar pandit fool its Bollywood film :lol:

Thats why Bakhts are so much fools that they always does Kadi ninda and are called Ganteshwars :rofl: :pound: :lol:
Hahahahahahahahaha. Bhikari Lollywood.

This fuck is a cult.
 

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What is the most optimistic GDP growth estimate for Pakistan under CPEC? And what are the general estimates? From what I've read, they estimate only around 6% growth with CPEC taken into consideration. I have not come across a single report predicting growth of 7-8%. Does anyone have any info on this?
 

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what about this, i know you would deny just like your army and ADGPI denies its their daily routine job to satisfy their highly bollywood fantasies and dream seekers public to see such actions in dreams :lol: :pound :rofl:

So what.!!!
India has a democracy, and such is the issue with democracy. and Intel. agencies know how to tackle them when it becomes beyond a point.

The fact is paki ISI is spendin soo much money to fan this so called SEPARATIST MOVEMENTS IN INDIA.. The money that pak can use to create hospitals so that the paki assholes need not come to INDIA and beg to HINDUSTHAN to save their kids life.
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To an extent thats the best way to bleed pakistan economically so that pak remains a state with a begging bowl and implodes under its own debt.

India knows how to give you, your ISI and assholes in paki establishment wet dreams..pakis are satisfied by Youtube videos which are propaganda materials.

paki isi goons are soo satisfied that they got a youtube video. Aint it? :D beyond that zilch at ground level.

The intel.agencies in India are proactive and is systematically flushing away your propaganda money. Its good to see many paki agents in India becoming rich with paki money just to fan a sentence directed by paki ilks in the Indian media...but beyond that nothing happens in India and that money is waster.

War on Terror has costed Pakistan $123 billions: Economic Survey
https://timesofislamabad.com/war-on...stan-123-billions-economic-survey/2017/05/25/

Seems like without much propaganda and videos pakistan is imploding on its own..

Many nations are trying to send man to the moon
BUT
pakista is still trying to send man to Kashmir
 

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China-promoted OBOR is a debt instrument only, claim European experts
By: ANI | Brussels (belgium) | Updated: June 12, 2017 4:42 PM




China-promoted OBOR initiative is nothing else but a debt instrument that can and will drive several nations, including Pakistan towards bankruptcy, say experts. (Reuters)


European economists and experts have concluded that the China-promoted One Belt and Road (OBOR) initiative is nothing else but a debt instrument that can and will drive several nations, including Pakistan towards bankruptcy. China, according to these experts, is charging interest rates as high as 16 percent and above for funding made available for OBOR projects like the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), and cautioned that these loans, which are cumulative, cannot be repaid easily. They are certain that countries like Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal could be pushed into an endless debt trap. Contrary to the claims made by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif that the CPEC could emerge as a game changer for the Pakistan economy, there is a worried and concerned perception gaining ground that the project is all and only about boosting Beijing’s position through its Renminbi or Yuan currency. One expert has said that China is competing globally to make the Yuan an alternate currency to the Dollar, and its One Belt One Road (OBOR), in which CPEC is a project, is to play a major role in this. It is a well known fact that Islamabad has border-related differences with India, Afghanistan and Iran, but this has not stopped China from using the influence that it enjoys with Pakistan to raise its investment-related stakes in the country. China has realised that Pakistan is completely dependent on it from a defence point of view, and will now use the proposed CPEC projects to establish itself as an economic behemoth as well in the region, which could eventually push Pakistan into debt. China, one expert, has said, will use the plea that it will sell its goods to Pakistan at higher price due to the risks involved in its proposed investments.

“Pakistan has no opportunity for bidding, it takes whatever China provides and in such a scenario transparency does not exists,” he said. It is also being felt by a majority of these experts that financial transactions linked to the CPEC lack transparency and will not provide the promised job opportunities to the youth, as things produced in industries set up by China would be exported to Pakistan, and thus generate profit for Beijing, not Islamabad. According to one economic estimate, Rs. 60 billion worth of deals happening with Pakistan are tied with the Yuan, and therefore, there is the possibility that trading could happen in Yuan instead of the dollar.

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A recent UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific Study (UNESCAP) has sensitised countries in South and Central Asia of the financial risks they could face through China’s OBOR. The UNESCAP report has cautioned that the size of the economy of a recipient country is small compared to the very high risk it faces should it accept or allow Chinese investment to take root. The final end result will be an unsurmountable debt trap for the country involved. According to the UNESCAP report, the USD 46 billion dollar CPEC represents a fifth of Pakistan’s Gross Domestic Product or GDP if not more. Similarly, the report cites the USD 37 billion China-Kazakhstan cooperation agreement signed in late 2014 and early 2015, as another example of Beijing’s debilitating investment impact on smaller economies in the Central Asian region.

The agreement between Bangladesh and China, according to the UNESCAP report, is worth USD 24 billion as of October 2016, which is equivalent to almost 20 percent of Dhaka’s GDP. China has a huge presence in the economic sector in Sri Lanka, and it comes as no surprise that Colombo’s debt exceeds USD 60 billion at present. Of this amount, over ten percent is owed to the Chinese. Colombo has reportedly approached Beijing with a proposal to convert existing debt into equity, thus creating the possibility of China owning several key projects coming up in Sri Lanka in the short as well the long term. According to the UNESCAP study, China has estimated that it will most likely invest about USD four trillion in OBOR-related infrastructure projects. The estimated infrastructure development needs in Asia will cost in the region between USD 1.6 to USD 1.7 trillion annually on average till 2030, according to UNESCAP study. An ambitious China is seeking to turn its currency into a global one, and does not seem to really care about the equally debilitating social or environmental impact its unrestricted money flows into other countries might have.
http://www.financialexpress.com/eco...nstrument-only-claim-european-experts/714066/
 

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China's One Belt, One Road plan `will drive Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal towards bankruptcy`
China is charging interest rates as high as 16 percent and above for funding made available for OBOR projects like the CPEC.

By Zee Media Bureau | Last Updated: Monday, June 12, 2017 - 14:55
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Brussels: Almost a month after China hosted the Belt and Road forum in Beijing, European economists and experts have concluded that Beijing's One Belt, One Road (OBOR) project is nothing but a debt instrument.

News agency ANI on Monday cited the experts as further claiming that the OBOR initiative will push several nations, including Pakistan, towards bankruptcy.


India has registered its concerns about the project, which espouses the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) that passes through Azad Kashmir. CPEC is the key artery of China's Belt and Road project that aims to connect Asia, Europe and Africa through a network of roads, railway lines, and ports.

As per the experts, China is charging interest rates as high as 16 percent and above for funding made available for OBOR projects like the CPEC, and warned that these loans, which are cumulative, cannot be repaid easily.

They are certain that countries like Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal could be pushed into an endless debt trap.

Contrary to the claims made by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif that the CPEC could emerge as a game changer for the Pakistan economy, there is a worried and concerned perception gaining ground that the project is all and only about boosting Beijing's position through its Renminbi or Yuan currency.

One expert has said that China is competing globally to make the Yuan an alternate currency to the Dollar, and its One Belt, One Road initiative is to play a major role in this.

It is a well-known fact that Islamabad has border-related differences with India, Afghanistan and Iran, but this has not stopped China from using the influence that it enjoys with Pakistan to raise its investment-related stakes in the country.

China has realised that Pakistan is completely dependent on it from a defence point of view, and will now use the proposed CPEC projects to establish itself as an economic behemoth as well in the region, which could eventually push Pakistan into debt.

China, one expert, has said, will use the plea that it will sell its goods to Pakistan at higher price due to the risks involved in its proposed investments.

"Pakistan has no opportunity for bidding, it takes whatever China provides and in such a scenario transparency does not exists," he said.


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It is also being felt by a majority of these experts that financial transactions linked to the CPEC lack transparency and will not provide the promised job opportunities to the youth, as things produced in industries set up by China would be exported to Pakistan, and thus generate profit for Beijing, not Islamabad.

According to one economic estimate, Rs 60 billion worth of deals happening with Pakistan are tied with the Yuan, and therefore, there is the possibility that trading could happen in Yuan instead of the dollar.

China-Pakistan Economic Corridor may ignite more Indo-Pak tensions: UN report

A recent UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific Study (UNESCAP) has sensitised countries in South and Central Asia of the financial risks they could face through China's OBOR.

The UNESCAP report has cautioned that the size of the economy of a recipient country is small compared to the very high risk it faces should it accept or allow Chinese investment to take root. The final end result will be an unsurmountable debt trap for the country involved.

According to the UNESCAP report, USD 46 billion dollar CPEC represents a fifth of Pakistan's Gross Domestic Product or GDP if not more.

Similarly, the report cites the USD 37 billion China-Kazakhstan cooperation agreement signed in late 2014 and early 2015, as another example of Beijing's debilitating investment impact on smaller economies in the Central Asian region.

The agreement between Bangladesh and China, according to the UNESCAP report, is worth USD 24 billion as of October 2016, which is equivalent to almost 20 percent of Dhaka's GDP.

China has a huge presence in the economic sector in Sri Lanka, and it comes as no surprise that Colombo's debt exceeds USD 60 billion at present.

Of this amount, over ten percent is owed to the Chinese.

Colombo has reportedly approached Beijing with a proposal to convert existing debt into equity, thus creating the possibility of China owning several key projects coming up in Sri Lanka in the short as well the long term.

According to the UNESCAP study, China has estimated that it will most likely invest about USD four trillion in OBOR-related infrastructure projects.

The estimated infrastructure development needs in Asia will cost in the region between USD 1.6 to USD 1.7 trillion annually on average till 2030, according to UNESCAP study.

An ambitious China is seeking to turn its currency into a global one, and does not seem to really care about the equally debilitating social or environmental impact its unrestricted money flows into other countries might have.

(With Agency inputs)

http://zeenews.india.com/world/chin...uptcy-2014501.html?pfrom=article-rhs-trending
 

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What is the most optimistic GDP growth estimate for Pakistan under CPEC? And what are the general estimates? From what I've read, they estimate only around 6% growth with CPEC taken into consideration. I have not come across a single report predicting growth of 7-8%. Does anyone have any info on this?
What good is a GDP for pakistan if 40% of that GDP is taken away by chinese themselves back to their china and rest will be used by pakistan for servicing the debts incurred. :D

Pakistani media crying because of Reliance industries, and comparison with Pakistan GDP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUHRhrNb9rU


Now to the query
The realistic figure if MOODYS is right is just 4.9% on pakistan

SLAMABAD: The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) will boost economic activities in Pakistan and the economic growth is expected to be 4.9% during the current year, says a report issued by international ratings agency Moody’s Corporation.

Pakistan’s annual economic progress has not touched 5% in more than a decade, but chances of achieving this reading are high this year owing to CPEC, a news channel reported.

https://tribune.com.pk/story/1336806/moodys-says-cpec-will-push-economic-activities-pakistan/
 

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OBOR is not a rosegarden... No pains no gains.
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Chinese automaker Geely buys stakes in Malaysia’s Proton, Lotus
The deal gives Geely a distribution network in Southeast Asia, where non-Japanese brands have struggled. Proton gets a financially strong partner and possibly more advanced technology.

The Chinese owner of Sweden’s Volvo Cars agreed on Wednesday to buy 49.9% of Malaysian automaker Proton, gaining a platform to expand into Southeast Asia.
Is geely an automaker or a holding company? I don't think they have designed and manufactured anything. They derived their early models from daihatsu (Japan) and most of their current models are also powered by Japanese engines. How are they an automaker? They are a holding company which just buys off marquees and models.
 

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Is geely an automaker or a holding company? I don't think they have designed and manufactured anything. They derived their early models from daihatsu (Japan) and most of their current models are also powered by Japanese engines. How are they an automaker? They are a holding company which just buys off marquees and models.
Here's some background info of Geely

THE MAN WHO DARED TO BUY PROTON A SAVVY DEALMAKER


Mr Li is reportedly worth a staggering S$9.7 billion. PHOTO: XINHUATONE.COM

Mr Li Shufu is the man who dared to buy Malaysia's loss-making national carmaker Proton.

And with his track record of turning around ailing automakers, it is hoped that Mr Li, the Chinese founder of Geely Group, can work his magic on Proton and revive its fortunes.

Mr Li is the rare entrepreneur who has found success in car manufacturing, a sector usually dominated by state-owned enterprises and multinationals. He founded Geely in 1986 to build refrigerators and became a carmaker in 1997 when he wanted to produce a cheap car for the masses. Geely, China's biggest privately owned carmaker, sold 1.3 million cars in 2016.

Meanwhile, Mr Li is reportedly worth a staggering US$7 billion (S$9.7 billion).

No wonder he is sometimes referred to as the "Henry Ford of China". He cemented his reputation as a savvy dealmaker after he revived Sweden's Volvo Cars in the face of widespread industry scepticism, following its acquisition from Ford Motor Company in 2010.

Mr Li also owns the iconic London Taxi Company.
 
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Pakistan is feeling more and more like a Chinatown

Learning to live together. (Reuters/Lucy Nicholson)
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If you pass him by in his electronic parts and components shop in the Electronics Market in Karachi’s Saddar, Mohammad Ali Arabi would look like any other normal young Pakistani businessman. There is nothing out of the ordinary about him until you hear him conversing on the phone with someone in Mandarin.

“Seeing Ali Bhai speaking while making strange facial gestures by twisting his features to pronounce the words, at first we thought that maybe he was possessed or having some kind of a fit,” laughs another shop owner in the market. “But now we are used to his speaking the language of our Chinese friends. He is often on the phone with someone or the other in China,” the shopowner adds.

“I learnt the language back in 2002 from a Chinese lady visiting Pakistan for her work,” says Arabi. “Her work required her staying in Karachi for extended periods and I helped her get by in things such as helping her find office space, where to buy groceries from, etc. In return, I requested her to teach me her language,” he says.

“The Chinese don’t call their language ‘Chinese’ or ‘Mandarin’. They call it Putonghua,” Arabi explains. “They don’t even refer to their country as ‘China’. For them it is Zhonghua, meaning ‘central country’.

“Learning the language has helped me a lot in knowing our friends better. It has also helped me in expanding my own electronics business. I often travel to mainland China where speaking the local language helps. Though everyone there is most kind on learning that I’m from Pakistan, when they find that I am fluent in their language, too, they sell me something they will sell you for 10 Yuan for just two or three Yuan,” says Arabi.

The spoken word
At the Axinstitute for Chinese Language, Asim Qadri says that his father had stressed the importance of learning Chinese 20 years ago. “There was no talk of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor [CPEC] back then,” he explains. “But I believe my father was a great visionary and a very wise man indeed to have realised all those years ago that the old friendship between China and Pakistan would pave the way for further interaction between the two peoples. He said it was going to be the language of the future in this region. He could speak German and Arabic himself and for us he predicted the importance of Chinese.”

Having acted on his father’s advice, Qadri now teaches the language at his institute in Karachi’s Gulshan-i-Iqbal along with also offering courses at some of the biggest and best universities of the city.


Asim Qadri teaching Mandarin at the Axinstitute for Chinese Language (Dawn)
“The language may seem difficult to you at first but not after I explain the fundamentals to you,” Qadri explains to his class. “Speaking Chinese is all about tone. The language constitutes four basic syllables. The meaning of a word in Chinese may change according to the tone or syllable used in pronouncing it. It may be the same word though. Also,” he adds, “like we have alphabets in Urdu and English, there are no alphabets in Chinese. Maybe written Chinese may seem like a bunch of insects to you at first but after careful study you would notice that they are pictograms. Writing ‘tree’ will have you actually drawing a symbol that looks like a pine tree, writing ‘heart’ will have you draw the outline of a heart,” he demonstrates while writing on the board,” he says.

The majority of Qadri’s students are businessmen or professionals working in fields where they have plenty of interaction with the Chinese. “So they want to learn functional or spoken Chinese. I have specially designed short courses for them. After studying one module, those who already have some interaction with the native Chinese are able to build further on their language skills through practice,” he points out.

One of Qadri’s students, Maria Qayyum Farooqui, a project communications executive with an events management company, says that they get Chinese delegations that they are expected to communicate with all the time. “Chinese people are very sharp. They understand a bit of Urdu and English, too. But we are at a disadvantage when trying to get our message across to them,” says Maria.

Some years ago, Mohammad Aftab, a youth from Abbottabad working with the Indus Motor Company Limited found an opportunity to travel to Korea. He wanted to work there but as things didn’t work out according to plan, he found himself travelling to China on a five-year visa. During his stay there he got by doing small jobs. He also learnt the local language. Aftab wanted to stay on in China as he couldn’t really envision making a life for himself in his native Abbottabad. But after overstaying his welcome there—when his visa expired—the young man was unceremoniously deported to Pakistan.


A bank signboard in Mandarin and English at Gwadar airport. (Shazia Hasan)
Aftab’s story doesn’t end just there. After coming back here, he worked as a part-time electrician for some time, earning around 500 rupees a day, when he could find work here, that is. It was like this until he realised that he possessed a valuable skill—fluency in the Chinese language. Today, he is employed with the Hazara Motorway Project and the high-paying job he landed is because of his fluency in Mandarin. Aftab earns almost 200,000 rupees monthly as the main liaison person between the local workers and the Chinese technicians working with the company to build roads.

Knowledge is power
The news, two years ago, that Mandarin as a subject was to be made mandatory in schools in Sindh from class six to class 10 was frowned upon by many who questioned the idea behind teaching of an alien language when kids here hadn’t even mastered the regional or official languages.


A copy of the Quran in Chinese with writing implements. (Shazia Hasan)
Under the MoU signed between the Sindh government education department and Chinese education department, schools in Sindh are to teach Mandarin while imparting knowledge about Chinese culture and values with the help of China. Under the scheme students learning Mandarin will be awarded extra marks, scholarships and be given opportunities for further education in China.

Though implementation of that decision is yet to be seen, there are some schools that have taken up the task of teaching Chinese to their pupils. One such chain of schools that goes by the name of the Roots School System (which has branches across Pakistan) has started doing it already.

The written word
Communication also includes publishing periodicals for the Chinese readership in Pakistan. The Chinese mean business and Huashang is the first business news magazine in Mandarin, which has been serving a readership of 25,000 for one year now. “We have a team of Chinese journalists and Chinese translators working to bring out this fortnightly magazine, which comes out alternately with an English edition one week and a Chinese one the next,” says Umar Farooq Alvi, an editor, at the magazine’s head office in Islamabad.

“The focus of the magazines is on business. We help Chinese companies looking to invest in Pakistan understand our market better,” Alvi explains.

The magazine only publishes 5,000 copies but to reach its wider readership an e-paper is available online and on Facebook, too. “Our copies are free. We earn through advertisements,” he says. “We publish advertisements for Chinese multinational companies looking for mergers with local business houses, we carry government advertisements too,” he adds.

Getting a good response for the publication, the magazine’s management recently met to look into bringing out both their English and Chinese publications simultaneously instead of on alternate weeks. “We are discussing it now. Let’s see what happens,” Alvi says.

Banking on the Chinese
Of late, some banks have also started attracting Chinese clients through their language. Habib Metropolitan Bank happens to be the trailblazer here. One can see the bank’s name is written both in English and in Chinese on the green board above the main entrance of some of their branches, one of them being at Bilawal Chowrangi.

Sheeza Ahmed, a senior manager looking at marketing at HabibMetro says they have Chinese business desks to look after their Chinese clientele at select branches. “Currently, there are five to 10 such branches across Pakistan with at least two to three in Karachi and also in other big cities such as Lahore and Islamabad along with the one in Gilgit and Gwadar,” she says. “We have specially-trained staff for these Chinese business desks who have received Chinese language training to help our Chinese friends feel comfortable dealing with our bank. Hopefully we will also be building on our Chinese clientele in the near future because of more investment opportunities coming up here due to CPEC,” she says.



A page from Huashang, a weekly that focuses on Pakistan business news of interest to Chinese investors. (Shazia Hasan)
Another such Pakistani bank happens to be the United Bank Limited. During a recent trip to Gwadar, one could see big advertisements of the bank mounted on plaques at the airport lounge walls in both English and Chinese with pictures of the Great Wall of China.

Grocery shopping, the Chinese way
It is not about Pakistanis and their love for Pakistani-Chinese cuisine as we have enjoyed chicken corn soup, egg fried rice, noodles, sweet and sour prawns from time immemorial. It is more about whether our biryani, pulao, korma and nihari would suit the Chinese palate. In most cases it does not. And that’s what grocery stores such as Z Mart, owned by the food supply division of S. Zia-ul-Haq & Sons, does by offering Chinese groceries. The mezzanine floor of their outlet in Clifton, Karachi, boasts of a variety of neatly packaged Chinese spices and ingredients such as red long mushrooms, pickled sweet garlic, pickled kelp, pickled vegetable mix, hot pot soup, chilli threads, sweet meat seasoning, pickled mustard, red bean paste, and what not.


Snacks on sale at Z Mart, an Asian grocery store in Karachi (Shazia Hasan)
Abdul Rasheed, the shopkeeper at Z Mart, says that their company provides items subject to the demand for them. “We order containers full of Chinese food ingredients because our Chinese customers need them here,” Rasheed says. “There are so many of our Chinese friends coming to Pakistan for work because of CPEC now. We must provide them with what they want so that they can lead a comfortable life here. They should not have any problem in Pakistan and for this we have liaison officers who meet with them to find out about their preference and choice in foods and where to avail these from in China. And we get it for them,” he says.

Acting up
We see the Chinese as wise, well-meaning hard-working people and our friends, so why not see them in the romantic lead of a love story, too? Chalay Thay Saath is a Pakistani movie with a local heroine and a Chinese hero.

Movies are the prime medium to help audiences become comfortable with change or perhaps plant a new idea in their minds. “While drafting the story and script, the writer Atiya Zaidi, Umer Adil, the director and myself were skeptical initially,” says Beenish Umer, the producer of the movie. “We realised as a nation and culture giving a daughter away to another culture might not be well perceived. I remember we even had a few debates about reversing the roles, and making the leading male role Pakistani. But to be honest, after the film was released we felt the audience took very well to the story, to Adam’s character and to the Resham and Adam dynamics. Despite Chalay Thay Saath’s intention of not following a formula/masala film solution, it became a bittersweet love story which the audience grew to love,” she adds.


“To be certain, I’m sure after Chalay Thay Saath, and also taking from the current dynamics of real life relationships, the Pakistani film producers might also look into unorthodox connections and cultural differences while telling their stories. I can foresee other Pakistan-China stories as both the countries are trying to work together on co-productions,” the young producer predicts.

Of course, Resham, the heroine’s name in the movie is no coincidence. Shahrah-i-Resham or the Silk Road has served as the main artery for trade with China for a very long time now. And with CPEC, the friendship between the two countries has grown stronger. How CPEC shapes Pak-China relations in the future depends on the two countries’ approach it but one thing is for sure: Pakistan will never be the same again.

This article first appeared on Dawn.

https://qz.com/1005661/pakistan-is-feeling-more-and-more-like-a-chinatown/

They even sell their women to Chinese and one day Porkistanis will alos look like CHINKIES. :rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::pound::pound::pound::pound::pound::pound::pound::pound::pound::pound::pound:
 

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Mountains are falling apart fast, ocean are drying faster and honey is turning bitter day in and out?????
 

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