Islamabad 12th November 2020: Parliamentary Committee on China-Pakistan Economic Corridor is organizing a Regional dialogue on 13th November, 2020 in Peshawar on role of Parliament in enhancing investment, trade and people to people exchanges under CPEC. This regional dialogue is first of the series of regional dialogues which would be held in all four provincial capitals, Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan.
 
Speaker National Assembly Asad Qaiser will chair this Regional dialogue as Chief Guest whereas Chief Minister KPK Mehmood Khan, Federal Minister for Defense Pervaiz Khattak, Special Assistant to PM Arbab Shahzad, Chairman Parliamentary Committee on CPEC Sher Ali Arbab will participate in the Dialogue. Parliamentarians, representatives of Provincial Government, Diplomatic community, Industrial and economic sectors, intelligentsia, civil society and media have also been invited to participate. The Dialogue is being supported by Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (Pakistan) and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Board of Investment.
 
Later three thematic sessions will be held to deliberate upon the opportunities of tourism, trade and investment to be generated due to ongoing projects of CPEC in KPK. The recommendations would be finalized to improve the efficacy of CPEC projects in the province.