ISLAMABAD: The western route of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) will be completed by December 2016, the parliamentary committee on CPEC was told here on Monday, however the parliamentarians from Balochistan are worried about the future of the province’s people after the project is completed.

The members coming out of the in-camera committee meeting told media persons that the most serious concern by parliamentarians of Balochistan was regarding demographic change in their province in the backdrop of the mega project.

“What we are worried about is to know that future of our nation,” said one parliamentarian.

Published in Dawn, December 15th, 2015