Pakistan Realog

ISLAMABAD: The National Security Council (NSC) is scheduled to meet on February 28 to decide on constitutional issues, the Balochistan situation and water reservoirs, sources told Daily Times on Saturday.
They said the meeting was likely to approve reviewing the constitution primarily for defusing the simmering situation in Balochistan, discuss the country’s law and order, take [...]

President Gen Pervaiz Musharraf on Saturday announced Rs100,000 for each bereaved family affected by rains and flash floods in Balochistan. He also announced that interest-free, long-term loans would also be given to the marooned people so that they could restart their lives.
He was addressing flood-affected people who had gathered at the Pasni airport [...]

ISLAMABAD:The Pakistan Muslim League (PML) decided on Thursday to rebuild at least 5,000 houses which were damaged because of floods caused by torrential rains that hit several parts of Balochistan and broke the Shadi Kor Dam.
The decision was made by Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, president of the PML, in a party meeting at his residence. Jam [...]

ISLAMABAD: The Federal Cabinet has decided to provide state-of-the-art facilities and lucrative incentives at the special economic zone in Gwadar to attract foreign and local investment.
The Cabinet which met in Islamabad Thursday under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz expressed resolve that the government would ensure provision of enabling environment for public-private partnership in [...]

ISLAMABAD: The government has decided to grant seven years’ tax exemption to industrial and business establishments in Gwadar Special Economic Zone (GSEZ) despite opposition from the Central Board of Revenue (CBR) and the Ministry of Labour and Manpower, Daily Times learned on Wednesday.
This decision is likely to be endorsed by the federal cabinet which meets [...]

A study put out by a think-tank in Washington says India and Iran view Pakistan’s Gwadar Port Project (GPP) with disfavour because it will one day come to rival Iran’s Chahbahar Port. Iran built the Chahbahar Port with Indian assistance and considers it Central Asia’s conduit to the Gulf and the Indian Ocean. The additional [...]

ISLAMABAD: Balochistan is facing a 40 percent shortage of District Management Group (DMG) officers. “The shortage of DMG officials is because of the present law and order situation in Balochistan,” sources told Daily Times.
“The shortage of DMG officers in the province is not a new thing because even in the past officers were reluctant [...]

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has sought loans and technical assistance from the World Bank (WB) to develop infrastructure of the Gwadar Port, said an official who was at Monday’s meeting between WB President James D Wolfensohn and Dr Salman Shah, advisor to the prime minister on finance and revenue.
The official said Pakistan sought assistance in developing infrastructure [...]

KARACHI: Gwadar town is as ancient as the Islamic history. The known history of Makran goes back to the time of Prophet Dawood (RA) when the people reach there to avoid starvation. In 325 BC when Alexander the Great incidentally found the sea in this area on his way from India to Macedonia . Gwadar [...]

Islamabad: Pakistan’s under construction Gwadar Port may face many hurdles before realising its goal of facilitating Pakistan’s economic growth with two key regional players, India and Iran seeing it as an economic and security threat, and local Baloch nationalists believing that the benefits will bypass them.
Gwadar lies at the “heart of President Pervez Musharraf’s vision [...]