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Battleground Balochistan - HindustanTimes.com The Gwadar Deep Seaport in Pakistan's Balochistan province will be functional by the middle of this year after completion of additional dredging of the channel to 14.5 meters, making it the deepest port of Pakistan and trans-shipment port for the region. The dredging of Gwadar Port channel to 14.5 meters, which has been undertaken by a Chinese Company, will make it a regional hub, as it will enable the port to receive the mother vessels. The Prime Minister said at the meeting that the completion of Gwadar Port would generate substantial economic opportunities for Balochistan and usher in a new era of development and prosperity for the people of this area. www.hindustantimes.com /news/7932_1636775,001601170000.htm   (330 words)

News Gwadar Port management is also in process of hiring consultants, who will prepare a master plan and future expansion plan of port. If run efficiently with good management and governance, Gwadar is destined to become regional hub providing employment opportunity to people of Gwadar in particular, Balochistan and the country, Pesnani said. This will be first time in Pakistan that complete port operations will be handled by international port operators, which will definitely lead to further development of Gwadar port as a regional hub. www.pakistanlink.com /Headlines/Aug05/02/08.htm   (454 words)

ISN Security Watch - China’s Gwadar naval outpost The planned Gwadar Deep Sea Port was one such alternative for which China had flown its deputy prime minister, Wu Bangguo, to Gwadar to lay its foundation on 22 March 2002. The Gwadar Port project is the summit of such partnership that will bring the two countries closer in maritime defense as well. The Gwadar port project, however, is billed to crown the Pakistan Navy into a force that can rival regional navies. www.isn.ethz.ch /news/sw/details.cfm?ID=10790   (1699 words)

Khaleej Times Online The Gwadar port authorities, sources said, has asked the federal government to manage gas and electricity requirements especially for the proposed hotels, restaurants, gas stations, and other development activities in the area. Under the programme, sources said, many industries have been envisaged to be established in the province in general and around Gwadar in particular for which skilled manpower would be needed for the operation of the port and the allied industries. Pakistan seeks Iran's help for power supply to Gwadar port www.khaleejtimes.com /DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/business/2005/December/business_December10.xml§ion=business&col=class=stories   (471 words)

Business Recorder [Pakistan's First Financial Daily] GWADAR (September 18 2005): The government has decided to construct a new international airport at Gwadar with state-of-the-art facility having world-class standard. The Prime Minister said that Gwadar Port would generate economic activity in the area and road network would connect it with Afghanistan, Iran and Central Asia as the most important route in the region for transportation. Earlier, in his welcome address Jam Mohammed Yousuf said that Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz's contribution towards development of Gwadar and construction of port here are laudable and commendable. www.brecorder.com /index.php?id=327129&currPageNo=1&query=&search=&term=&supDate=   (1276 words)

Gwadar — the dream city of South East Asia Gwadar which is certainly going to be a success story in terms of attracting investors both local and foreign by declaring Gwadar as a free zone and the development of an export processing zone at the coastal areas like Ormara and Gwadar. Gwadar would offer an outlet to the CAS countries much better than what the Western world, which has the history of exploiting Russian and other socialist states in the area of sales and transportation of commercial and industrial cargo. Once Gwadar port is built and opened it will not only be useful for Pakistani exporters and importers but also attract central Asian States to use this port for their cargo shipments. www.pakistaneconomist.com /issue2001/issue28/i&e2.htm   (788 words)

Asia Times Online :: South Asia news, business and economy from India and Pakistan Gwadar as a port site way back in the 1960s, but it was only in 2001-02 that concrete steps on the proposal were taken. Gwadar is 725km to the west of Karachi port, making it that much less vulnerable than Karachi to an Indian naval blockade. BANGALORE- The port project at Gwadar in Pakistan's restive Balochistan province appears to be in trouble. www.atimes.com /atimes/South_Asia/HA21Df03.html   (1485 words)

“China Docks in Gwadar” - theTrumpet.com The port of Gwadar lies in the Arabian Sea and is situated close to the Strait of Hormuz — the waterway through which 40 percent of the world’s oil travels. Two weeks ago Chinese officials signed an agreement for the deepening of the port of Gwadar, “whose Chinese-built facilities symbolize China’s return to an area that was briefly a playground for its navy” (International Herald Tribune, April 12). Chinese influence over the Pakistani port of Gwadar is mounting. www.thetrumpet.com /index.php?page=article&id=1418   (508 words)

Pakistan News PakTribune.Com The prime minister said the government was according a high priority to the development of Gwadar port since it was a vital link in the logistics chain and essential to opening up new vistas of economic cooperation in the region. Aziz was also told that the contract to dredge and deepen Gwadar seaport from the existing depth of 11.5 meters to 14.5 meters had already been offered to a Chinese firm. He said he was satisfied with the progress made so far on Gwadar port project, emphasizing the momentum must be maintained for its early completion. www.paktribune.com /news/index.php?id=117390   (495 words)

BBC NEWS World South Asia Pakistan car bomb kills Chinese The blast occurred as the engineers were being taken to work on a project developing port facilities in the city of Gwadar, near the border with Iran. "A car was parked near the port and it exploded as the bus reached the port," Sattar Lasi, Gwadar's police chief, told the Associated Press news agency. China is a key trading partner and ally of Pakistan and is funding 80% of the port project, which will be completed next year. news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/south_asia/3679533.stm   (566 words)

Welcome to Gwadar City Guide (UK) - a portal on Gwadar City for visitors and residents - Business Investors - INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES In Gwadar Gawadar Pakistan uk Gwadar is the most preferable, being the better for the reasons aforementioned as well as having naturally sheltered port conditions on two sides. Gwadar deep sea port as a free zone, with its fascinating beaches and romantic hilly surroundings, may fascinate not only the tourists but investment at a massive scale as its strategic location as a corridor to Central Asian States offer great economic opportunities for the investors. This is however not a part of the sanction to the Gwadar Port Development Authority. www.omarzworld.co.uk /Gwadar.htm   (3674 words)

QUETTA: Local people to get most jobs in Gwadar, says governor -DAWN - Local; 07 August, 2004 The construction of Gwadar port and other development projects in the city would not only benefit the local people but the entire country, and added that it would usher in a new era of development and prosperity in the province. The governor dismissed a perception that with the development of Gwadar as a port city the local population would be converted into a minority. Earlier, the Director-General of Gwadar Development Authority said that the federal government had allocated over Rs6 billion for the Gwadar port and the development of Gwadar city in the current budget. www.dawn.com /2004/08/07/local40.htm   (386 words)

India  A look at Gwadar deep-sea port, Strategic and Econmic Dimensions StrategyPage.com Gwadar was the best choice because it offered ideal conditions for building a deep-sea port and secondly, it is situated 470 km away from Karachi, making it less vulnerable to the Indian naval blockade, which Pakistan faced during the 1971 War. The Gwadar Project, recently inaugurated by President Musharraf, is the fourth mega project initiated by the present regime for the uplift of the people of Balochistan-Pakistan's strategically important, yet in socio-economic terms, most neglected province. The Indians have become so alarmed over the Chinese participation in the construction of Gwadar port that their policy makers and strategic planners have strongly urged their government to immediately take measures for the modernisation and up-gradation of the Indian navy, which with two fleets is already the largest naval force in Southeast Asia. www.strategypage.com /messageboards/messages/72-6970.asp   (1266 words)

Pakistan Link Headlines About opposition to the construction of the Gwadar Port, the Chief Minister said that those opposing it are not sincere adding mentally sick people and misguided elements are against its construction. To a question, he said that due to unemployment a sense of deprivation is prevailing among the unemployed youth and expressed the opinion that this problem would be solved largely with the functioning of Gwadar Port project. Islamabad: Chief Minister Balochistan Jam Mohammad Yousuf has said that an era of progress and prosperity would usher in the country with the completion and functioning of Gwadar Port. www.pakistanlink.com /headlines/oct04/25/03.html   (376 words)

Nightly.Net: CIA: Pakistan will be failed state by 2015 In March 2002, Chinese vice premier Wu Bangguo laid the foundation for Gwadar port. More important is Gwadar's proximity to the Persian Gulf. Gwadar is a fishing village on the Arabian Sea coast in the Pakistani province of Balochistan. www.nightly.net /cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=39;t=001179;p=0   (2669 words)

The Nation Gwadar town to be relocated is like a hammer, and the port is being developed around the Koh-e-Batil which may be taken as hammerhead. Gwadar is now the most travelled destination of the country’s property business players, who foresee that the town, which is currently surrounded by hills and sea, will soon be dotted with high-rise buildings and become a centre for foreign travellers and investors. Gwadar town is as ancient as the Islamic history. www.nation.com.pk /daily/feb-2005/7/bnews2.php   (1777 words)

International trade networks: The Omani Enclave of Gwadar. - Conference on German and International Research on Oman, Bonn 1998: abstracts Gwadar includes not only the town and port but the whole sandy peninsula of that name covering an area of about 307 square miles. Towards the end of the eighteenth century Nasir Khan I, of the Ahmadzai family of the Brahui ethnic group of Kalat "granted" the port of Gwadar to Sultan bin Ahmad (ruled 1792-1804) of the Al Bu Sa'id tribe of Oman, who escaped from Maskat (Muscat) around 1784. Nevertheless, Gwadar remained an Omani possession as part of the sultanate until September 1958. www.oman.org /bonn_007.htm   (466 words)

Chinese Activity in Balochistan It was as a follow-up to the discussions of November last that Mr.Zhu announced the Chinese financial pledges for the development of the Gwadar port and for the construction of the coastal highway, subject to satisfactory feasibility studies. The Government has approved the building of Pakistan’s third port at Gwadar, which is at about 234 nautical miles west of Karachi. Gwadar is currently a fishing town on the western end of the Balochistan Coast, formed by a natural headland connected to the mainland by a sand spit. www.saag.org /papers3/paper259.html   (2213 words)

TIMEasia Magazine: Waiting for the Boom Gwadar is said to be Pakistan's great boomtown, a place of incredible beauty and unparalleled opportunity. Newspapers are filled with articles predicting that Gwadar will become the "Dubai of Pakistan" and with advertisements trumpeting pictures of under-construction luxury hotels and residential communities. Gwadar is little more than a sleepy seaside village today, but its residents hope a nascent deepwater port could transform it into an economic dynamo www.time.com /time/asia/2004/journey/pakistan.html   (540 words)

THE BLAST IN GWADAR In view of the Chinese interest in the Gwadar port as a gateway for the external trade of the Xinjiang province and as a regional base for the Chinese Navy, the Uighur extremists, in Beijing's perception, would have a strong motive to disrupt its construction. Three Chinese, belonging to the China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC), were killed when a car laden with explosives hit a van in which they were travelling to the site of a new commercial and naval port under construction by the Chinese company at Gwadar in the Balochistan province of Pakistan on May 3, 2004. About 16 residents of Gwadar have so far been rounded up in connection with the investigation and a team of Chinese intelligence and police officials has flown into Pakistan to join the investigation. www.saag.org /papers10/paper993.html   (1021 words)

pakistani perspective: Makran Coastal High (MCH) links Gwadar to Karachi - Reuters Elsewhere, Financial Times reports on Pakistan's brilliant decision to outsource the operation of Gwadar port to the private sector, Pakistan seeks investors for port. The much-publicized Makran Coastal Highway, 415-kilometre-long from Agore to Gwadar, was completed by the National Highway Authority (NHA) through the Frontier Works Organization and opened by the president on Dec 16 last. As one would expect, real-estate prices in Gwadar have gone through the roof. www.pakp.com /2004/12/makran-coastal-high-mch-links-gwadar.html   (468 words)

Gwadar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Gwadar is located on the southwestern coast of Pakistan, close to the important Straits of Hormuz, through which more than 13 million bbd of oil passes. Gwadar would also serve as a port of entry for oil and gas to be transported by land to the western regions of China. The road links Karachi with several ports along the coast including Ormara, Pasni, Gwadar and will be extended to the Iranian border in the future. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gwadar   (1009 words)

Gwadar Port City Gwadar Port has been built to bring progress and prosperity in the country in general and in Balochistan in particular. Gwadar has potential to attract the transit and trans-shipment trade as it provides an alternate route to the Gulf Ports as well as to the Central Asian Republics (CARs). Success of Gwadar Deep Sea Port is only possible through provision of maximum incentives through investors, like exemption of Federal Taxes up to 30 years which could further be extended for another 20 years. www.gwadarportcity.com   (435 words)

Gwadar: City of Fishermen in Pakistan Becomes Strategic Port The Agonist NYT - By next year Gwadar stands to become one of the most strategic deepwater ports in the region that includes Central Asia and China. And it has given the Gwadar port a laserlike focus. Gwadar: City of Fishermen in Pakistan Becomes Strategic Port scoop.agonist.org /story/2004/9/28/65522/2716   (1603 words)

International Assessment and Strategy Center > Research > Gwadar Deep Water Port Project: Implications For Pakistan And China Use of Gwadar port by China, which is one of the fastest growing economies in the world would accelerate the growth of both the port and the hinterland as well as enhance Gwadar's overall commercial and strategic value. In the event of war, a port in Gwadar would provide strategic depth to Pakistan’s commercial and military vessels and be in a relatively advantageous position from which to operate against an Indian navy. Development of the Gwadar port, which is located in the relatively backward province of Baluchistan would benefit its overall economy and unlock its potential. www.strategycenter.net /research/pubID.4/pub_detail.asp   (1285 words)

Gwadar — A new port in the offing Gwadar — A new port in the offing The government however was clearly told that completing the Gwadar port as a friendship project was not possible in the given circumstances but China was ready to extend loan on soft term plus technical know-how. A team of experts, led by the Chinese communications minister evaluated a number of projects but selected Gwadar deep-sea port. www.pakistaneconomist.com /issue2001/issue28/i&e1.htm   (798 words)

Gwadar port to help boost economy: Aziz -DAWN - Top Stories; September 18, 2005 He said the Gwadar port would generate economic activity in the area, adding that a road network would connect the town with Afghanistan, Iran and Central Asia as the most important route in the region for transportation. He said a modern airport would be built at Gwadar and the existing one would be renovated. “This has never happened before in the history of Balochistan,” the prime minister said while speaking at the ground-breaking ceremony of the Gwadar Port Civic Centre. www.dawn.com /2005/09/18/top2.htm   (608 words)

The Public Affairs Magazine- Newsinsight.net In Pakistan, Jiabao will attend the foreign ministers’ meeting of the Asia Cooperation Dialogue and inaugurate the Gwadar deepsea port in the Arabian Sea. Gwadar in Baluchistan is almost at the mouth of the Persian Gulf, seventy-two kilometres from Iran, and about four hundred kilometres from the Strait of Hormuz through which most of the world’s oil is supplied. Gwadar, the build up of military assets in Aksai China, the extension of the Karakoram Highway, all constitute hostile acts, either promoting China’s encirclement of India, or strengthening Pakistan against India, and not protesting them with Wen Jiabao amounts to accepting creeping Chinese hegemony in South Asia. www.indiareacts.com /archivedebates/nat2.asp?recno=1109   (1206 words)

PakDef Forums - Govt. to declare Gwadar Port free-trade area: Shaukat “You can’t even imagine,” says Amir Samsam of SandS Consultant who came to Gwadar from Karachi over three years ago when even the foundation stone for the proposed port had not been laid. China has assured Pakistan that Gwadar Port in Balochistan will be ready for operation by December 18. The Chinese Assistant Minister of Commerce Chen Jian met Minister for Ports and Shipping, Babar Khan Ghauri here yesterday and discussed with him the progress of development work at Gwadar Port. www.pakdef.info /forum/showthread.php?t=1888   (4118 words)

Golden Avenue [Golden Lake Gwadar, Golden Beach Town Houses, Golden Tower, Golden Apartments] Gwadar, the name which conjures up images of hidden treasures and a seaside paradise, when you think of choosing a place here for yourself, do not snap at the first thing you see. In someway, somehow, we think no one knows Gwadar better than we do, because we were there when few knew about it. We were one of the first and foremost in Gwadar. www.goldenavenue05.com   (181 words)

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