The rise of militancy and instability in Pakistan’s western frontier provinces, Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, is now extending to attacks on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor. We sit down with Uzair Younus, principal at the Asia Group and host of Pakistonomy, and Pakistani journalist Kunwar Khuldune Shahid to delve into the economics and geopolitics behind CPEC, the breakdown of security in the frontier provinces, and why different groups are coordinating attacks to destabilize CPEC projects.
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