ISLAMABAD: The Pak-Afghan Transit Trade talks scheduled for today (Friday) have been postponed. The Afghan government conveyed about the postponement of its delegation’s visit to Pakistan in emergency on Thursday evening. According to the programme, details with regard to the implementation of the Pak-Afghan trade were to be settled during the talks. Mumtaz Haider Rizvi,[…]

You’ve probably never heard of Balochistan. A resource rich province of Pakistan wedged between Afghanistan and Iran, it is an area of great geo-political importance that includes the port of Gwadar, which many eye as a profitable road to China and Central Asia. Balochistan is also the site of what historian Selig Harrison has called[…]

Miles away from the war on terror being fought in Pakistan’s north on the border with Afghanistan is another insurgency whose hub is the port city of Gwadar, located near Iran on the Makran coast. Unlike the battle against the Taliban, this uprising receives little international attention, although it is set against the backdrop of[…]

QUETTA (APP) – Balochistan Chief Minister Nawab Aslam Khan Raisani has offered facilities to the European Union and the Central Asian states for establishing trade consulate in Gwadar, the coastal town of the province and launching development projects. “Due to its geo-graphical position and deep-sea waters, Gwadar will become hub of commercial activities of the[…]

The pivotal year was 2009, according to the Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA). It was then that China consumed more energy than any other country in the world, even the U.S., prompting an expert at the IEA expert to proclaim “the start of a new age in the history of energy.”

ISLAMABAD, April 4 (APP) – As per vision of the Pakistan People’s Party leadership, Ministry of Communications has launched Rs. 129114.3 million for development of Pakistan’s road network which will lower trade costs and enhance competitiveness of Pakistani products besides reduction in accidents and enhanced safety. The newly launched projects after their completion will play[…]

If closely assayed, the port at Gwadar, Pakistan—touted as part of China’s string of maritime gems—loses its luster, looking more like a counterfeit than the real thing. China’s investment in the construction of the Port of Gwadar in western Pakistan has fueled speculation for nearly a decade that the Pakistani port is a keystone of[…]

Trading activities resumed in Pakistan’s South-western Gwadar port this week after six months when two vessels from Saudi Arabia brought fertiliser to the city. The activity revived life in a town that had come to a standstill due to the security situation. A day before the vessels arrived, 11 workers of the National Highway Authority[…]