Pakistan PM Imran Khan to visit China, seek investments

Concerns over slow pace of CPEC projects, safety of Chinese personnel in Pakistan likely to be taken up

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan may become one of the first foreign leaders to visit China after the start of the pandemic when he visits early next month, officials in Islamabad have said.

China hasn’t hosted foreign leaders since the start of the pandemic and the initial lockdown of Wuhan in January 2020. President Xi Jinping has also not travelled out of China for close to two years, since a visit to Myanmar in mid-January 2020.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to attend the Winter Olympics in Beijing which start on February 4. While the dates of the Pakistani Prime Minister’s visit haven’t been confirmed, an official in charge of the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project said this week Mr. Khan will visit early next month.