“[The] prime minister is pleased to appoint Khalid Mansoor as special assistant to the prime minister on CPEC affairs with immediate effect,” according to a notification issued by the PM Office. Mansoor has not been appointed as the chairman of CPEC Authority, which is a statutory position under the CPEC Authority Act of 2021. They said that Prime Minister Imran Khan wanted to appoint someone else to run the CPEC affairs. I bow my head before Allah Almighty for giving me an opportunity to raise & steer the important institution of CPEC Authority as one window for all CPEC projects, charting the future direction. The CPEC Authority had everything except the authority and it was just a nomenclature, a top government official commented.

Source: The Express Tribune August 03, 2021 14:41 UTC