ISLAMABAD -- The Pakistani Taliban's new drive to control the country's south threatens to be a "huge problem" for reviving multibillion-dollar infrastructure projects under China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), analysts say.
Last week, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), a collection of militant Islamist groups, announced that it was establishing a "shadow province" in the southwestern province of Balochistan. The region, home to the BRI's port city of Gwadar, has been the scene of a low-level separatist insurgency for nearly two decades, with Chinese interests targeted for attacks.
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