Pakistani Taliban's 'shadow province' threatens China BRI projects

Extremist group aims to create parallel government in conflict-wracked Balochistan

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Gwadar Port is the heart of the $50 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, the Pakistani component of Beijing's globe-spanning Belt and Road Initiative. (Source photos by AP and Reuters)

ADNAN AAMIR, Contributing writer

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.

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