PM gives nod to abolish CPEC Authority

The minister further said the CPEC Authority Act would be repealed once the Chinese authorities give their consent. The decision to wind up the CPEC Authority is in line with the PML-N’s old policy that was never in favour of establishing a parallel set-up. The execution of the CPEC projects would be in the hands of the line ministries, he added. The previous PTI government had reluctantly enacted the CPEC Authority but it never filled the chairman’s post after Lt Gen (retd) Asim Saleem Bajwa’s resignation. Because of a delay in making the final decision to dissolve the authority, people had started lobbying for the vacant post of the CPEC Authority chairman.