| Author | Amit Bhandari, fellow,energy and enviornment studies at Gateway house |
| Issue Number | 2018/14 |
| Date | 07-04-2018 |
| Source | http://www.gatewayhouse.in/pakistan-security-economic-risk/ |
Pakistan’s bad choices – supporting terrorism in Afghanistan and India, its military’s interference in the political process, and economic mismanagement – are hitting its economy hard. These economic problems may also hurt the ambitious $62-billion China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), which is a key component of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
On April 4, 2018, the United Nations listed 139 terrorists currently based out of Pakistan, including Hafiz Saeed and Dawood Ibrahim. This comes barely a week after the U.S. State Department designated two Pakistan-based groups – offshoots of the Lashkar-e-Taiba – as terrorist groups and almost a month after the Financial Action Task Force decided to place Pakistan on its ‘grey list’ of countries for providing financia
