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China accelerating civil nuclear cooperation with Pakistan

China accelerating civil nuclear cooperation with Pakistan

Islamabad, July 3, China has recently signed a nuclear energy deal with Pakistan worth $4.8 billion, accelerating its efforts towards civil nuclear cooperation, in a curios move to seek export customers in a market dictated by the West and Russia. In June this year, China and Pakistan signed a nuclear energy deal worth 4.8 billion dollars, which experts believe is a prying move on part of Beijing, done at a time when it has already had a jarring ride on its investments in Pakistan’s power business and has had to suffer to sapping cash crunch due to shortage of Islamabad’s…
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