Pakistan: $6.8B BRI Rail Slows

Photo: ASIF HASSAN/AFP via Getty Images
Photo: ASIF HASSAN/AFP via Getty Images

China is reluctant to finance the Main Line 1 railway, the largest Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) project in Pakistan, at the 1 percent interest rate requested by Islamabad, which will likely delay the project's anticipated January 2021 start date, Nikkei reports.

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