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ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has ordered work on Gwadar Port to be quickened in order to complete it without any delays. A meeting was held at Prime Minister’s House on Wednesday to review the progress on the port’s construction. The prime minister was told that dredging work to deepen Gwadar Port had started and[…]
BEIJING: China assured its support to Pakistan connecting Gwadar seaport with the rest of the country through rail link. Chinese railways minister Liu Zhijun during his meeting with his Pakistani counterpart Mian Shamim Haider held here on Saturday gave the assurance.
QUETTA: A five-year security plan has been developed for Gwadar, the Central Police Office told Balochistan Governor Owais Ahmed Ghani and Balochistan Chief Minister Jam Muhammad Yousuf on Monday.
QUETTA: A five- year Security plan has been evolved at Gwadar keeping in view its development as international sea port, oil and gas imports from Turkmenistan and Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline.
KARACHI: United Nation Organisation (UNO) has so far not granted its official recognition to Gwadar port, learned sources informed on Thursday. The UNO recognition is granted by UNESCAP, headquartered at Bangkok.
President Pervez Musharraf said on Friday said he supported legislation on land ownership rights in Gwadar and the reconstitution of the Parliamentary Committee on Balochistan.
ISLAMABAD: The federal government is finalizing a long-term plan for massive development activities in Balochistan, primarily aimed at addressing the grievances of the people of the province.
GWADAR: Gwadar observing strike today against Pakistan coast guards behavior whereas bus owners of Karachi to Makran route have also joined the strike causing complete bus traffic from Karachi to Turbat, Panjgor, Pasni, Ormara and other parts.
ISLAMABAD: The pro-government Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) called for a “sincere and just” political solution of the Balochistan issue in its executive committee meeting held on Tuesday.
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Railways intends to establish a railway link between Quetta and Gwadar at a cost of Rs 40 billion. This was stated at a meeting of the Senate Standing Committee on Communication and Railways, which met here on Monday under the chairmanship of Senator Kamil Ali Agha. The meeting was informed that the[…]
GWADAR: Federal Minister for Ports and Shipping Babar Ghori visited Gwadar port and expressed anger over slow pace of construction work. He directed the concerned authorities to complete the construction work on immediate basis.
GWADAR – When Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao visits Pakistan this month to inaugurate the Gwadar deepsea port, China will take a giant leap forward in gaining a strategic foothold in the Persian Gulf region. It will advance what a recent Pentagon report describes as Beijing’s “string of pearls” strategy that aims to project Chinese power[…]
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
QUETTA: The 892 kilometre long Gwadar-Rato Dero Highway will be completed by 2007 with an estimated cost of Rs six billion. Chairman National Highway Authority Major General Farrukh Javed informed this while briefing Balochistan Governor Owais Ahmed Ghani here on Monday.
QUETTA, Jan 15: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has said that the government will not tolerate any obstacle to the development process launched by Centre in the Balochistan province.
KARACHI: Gwadar Port, built with Chinese help and close to Iran, will change trading links with Afghanistan and Central Asia, the official heading the project said on Wednesday. To be formally opened in the next few months, the $248 million project was completed this month, 12 weeks ahead of schedule, said Akbarali A Pesnani, Chairman[…]
