The inauguration of the Gwadar port is a step forward in Pakistan’s infrastructural and economic development and for Balochistan in particular. However, much still needs to be done to ensure that the fruits of this development filter down to the average Baloch.

GWADAR: President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday said that Pakistan was a cradle of ancient civilisation and called for wide-ranging measures for the preservation of national heritage for future generations.

QUETTA, March 20: President Gen Pervez Musharraf officially opened, along with Chinese Minister of Communications Li Shenglin, the country’s third port at Gwadar on Tuesday and promised a fourth port to be built at Sonmiani in the Lasbela district.

GWADAR: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has said that Gwadar Port which would soon be operational was bound to transform the economic milieu of the region.

A labourer in his individual capacity on May 1 protested against the atrocities of the authorities concerned who take action against those workers who go to Gwadar to explore job opportunities there.

KARACHI, Aug 26: President Pervez Musharraf said on Friday that Pakistan must establish oil refineries at Gwadar to refine oil of Gulf countries for international market. “If we can develop large oil terminal and set up oil refineries at the Gwadar port located at the mouth of the Gulf.

GWADAR: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said Saturday that the federal government is spending a record 134 billion rupees on mega projects for development in Makran and Gwadar.

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Wednesday ordered complete details of all developmental projects and boards for the Gwadar Port Project, and demanded a comprehensive briefing from the Ministry of Shipping and Ports, sources said.

ISLAMABAD, Aug 22: The federal government has provided an additional amount of $50 million to the ministry of communications to complete the first phase of the Gwadar deep-sea port project by June 2006.