Abstract

The research study was conducted to find out the emergence of CPEC in Daily Urdu Express newspaper and Daily Urdu Jang newspaper, factors of overall positive and negative emergence of CPEC. Quantitative method was used, and the content analysis was applied to the sample of two leading dailies Urdu newspapers of Pakistan; Express and Jang. Sample of entire year of 2016 was taken for this account. The results indicated that 88.9% of the total news about CPEC published in Daily express were positive and 11.1% negative whereas 91.4% of the total news about CPEC published in Daily Jang were positive and 8.6% were negative. Overall, 14 factors were found under positive portrayal of leading 4 factors security, peace, PakChina relations and infrastructure. The leading factor in negative portrayal was political Party Politics among the 14 defined news factors. Conclusively, CPEC was portrayed positively.

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