CPEC, a significant bilateral infrastructure and improvement challenge between China and Pakistan, passes via Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. This challenge is part of the OBOR initiative, now renamed the Belt and Street Initiative (BRI), which is geared toward growing new commerce routes between China and the remainder of the world.
The Ministry of Exterior Affairs was requested whether or not a gathering was held between Pakistan, China and Afghanistan within the fourth week of Could 2025, and if it is usually a indisputable fact that there was a “dialogue” on increasing CPEC to Afghanistan.
In a written response to the question within the Rajya Sabha, Minister of State for Exterior Affairs Kirti Vardhan Singh stated the federal government of India is “conscious of a China-Pakistan-Afghanistan assembly held in Beijing, China on 21 Could 2025”.
“Authorities's place on CPEC is evident and constant. Authorities has persistently protested to events involved over the inclusion of the so-called ‘China-Pakistan Financial Hall (CPEC)', which passes via components of the Indian Union Territories of Ladakh and Jammu & Kashmir beneath unlawful occupation of Pakistan, as a flagship challenge of ‘OBOR/BRI' and requested them to stop these actions,” the MoS stated.
“Any proposed participation of third international locations or growth of the so-called CPEC initiatives to 3rd international locations is unacceptable. Authorities has persistently conveyed this place to related events,” he stated.Singh added that the Indian authorities retains a “fixed watch” on all developments having a bearing on India's safety and takes all crucial measures to safeguard it.
