ISLAMABAD: The government has allocated Rs 1100 million under Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) for New Gwadar International Airport during the year 2011-12. According to details, the total estimated cost of the project is Rs 7675 million, which included Rs 1464 million of foreign loan. The total expenditure of the project up to June 2011[…]

BEIJING: China said on Tuesday that it had not heard of Pakistan’s proposal for China to help it build a naval port at the deep water port of Gwadar.

ISLAMABAD: Defence Minister Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar said on Saturday that China had “acceded to Pakistan’s request to take over operations” of the Gwadar port as soon as the agreement with the Singapore Port Authority expired. The minister, who had accompanied the prime minister during his visit to China, issued a statement to press about the[…]

Defence Minister Ahmed Mukhtar said that China has agreed to take control of operations at the Gwadar Port. In a statement issued after his visit to China, the Defence Minister said that China will take over control of the Gwadar Port Authority once the contract with the Port of Singapore Authority (PSA) expires.

QUETTA: The provincial government is planning to launch a housing scheme for fishermen in five fishing regions, Minister of Fisheries and Coastal Development, Mir Hamal Kalmati, said.

Islamabad—An amount of Rs 11,631.171 million were originally allocated for 20 projects of National Highway Authority (NHA) in Balochistan under PSDP 2010-2011, Minister for Communications, Dr Arbab Alamgir Khan told Upper House of the Parliament on Wednesday.

ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office on Saturday denied suggestions that the Gwardar port was being developed as a naval base for China, saying a news report in this regard was not correct. “It is being developed as a commercial port which will increase Pakistan’s trade relations with the Middle East, Central Asia and Europe and provide[…]

Minister for Railways Ghulam Ahmed Bilour on Friday said that a proposal was under consideration to connect the Gwadar Deep Sea Port through a rail link of Pakistan Railways. He said feasibility study had been completed under which the Gwadar Port was proposed to link with main railway network at Mastung located on Quetta-Taftan section,[…]

Mian Shahbaz Sharif, the Punjab Chief Minister, was the first politician from Punjab who exposed the real designs of military dictator General ® Pervez Musharraf on the issue of Gwadar. He had rightly said that the General deliberately left the Gwadar Deep Water Port Project incomplete and by designs to keep Pakistan in a deeper[…]