China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is a huge project executed by the People’s Republic of China and Islamic Republic of Pakistan. CPEC has bright prospects but it might face challenges in the process of execution. In the recent days, tremendous literature is coming up on the subject in the form of books, monographs, research papers and other write ups, in the print and social media. Nevertheless, very few of them are based on direct contact with people. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan is a key partner in execution of the project. . From the boundaries of Gilgit Baltistan to Rawalpindi district of the Punjab Province, the main route of the corridor passes through that strategically important province. Furthermore a number of projects of CPEC will also be executed in the province. This paper is an attempt to look into the CPEC prospects in the province especially people’s opinion and support for it. For this purpose, respondents, selected through convenient sampling, were approached. They belonged to wide range of areas and socio-economic backgrounds. Views of the respondents were analyzed so as to reach conclusion. Moreover, few more respondents were selected for key informant interviews in order to get their views for qualitative analysis