Gwadar Real Estate News

KUWAIT: Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani on Tuesday urged two Kuwaiti financial giants to help Pakistan overcome its energy shortage and development of infrastructure through investments in Thar Coal and building of Gwadar Port’s facilities.

ISLAMABAD (February 15, 2011) : The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has designated 13 routes for Afghan transit cargo, which reaches Karachi/Gwadar ports, and is transported to Torkhum/ Chaman border for carrying it to the specified destinations in Afghanistan. It is learnt that the proposed Afghan Transit Trade Rules 2011 by FBR have introduced a[…]

KUWAIT, Feb 15 (APP): Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani on Tuesday urged the two Kuwaiti financial giants to help Pakistan overcome it’s energy shortage and development of infrastructure through investments in Thar Coal and building of Gwadar Port’s facilities.“We have one of the world’s largest coal reserves-175 billion tons in Thar. The Kuwait Investment[…]

ISLAMABAD: The government would estabish two universities with total cost of Rs.3049.142 million in Balochistan, with an aim to promote higher education in comparatively backward areas of the country, particularly in this province.

By Dr Shabir Choudhry 13 February, 2011 Countercurrents.org Presentation of Dr Shabir Choudhry in House of Lords on 11 Feb 2011 Madam Chair, Baroness Emma Nicholson, friends and colleagues aslamo alaykam and good afternoon. First of all I want to thank Baroness Emma Nicholson and her staff for sincerely and actively working to promote the[…]

Islamabad—Believe it or not, the cost of construction of Expressway on East Bay of Gwadar Port has increased by almost close to 100 percent from Rs 3.763 billion to Rs 6.274 billion on the pretext that the scope of the project has increased which is factually widened by 37 percent, Pakistan Observer has learnt reliably.

* Naveed Qamar says security threats hampering exploration of oil and gas in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly was on Wednesday informed that the imported Iranian gas would cost the country double as compared to existing gas prices. Currently, the gas price is about $5 per mmbtu while keeping in view the[…]

ISLAMABAD (updated on: 2011-02-02 20:51:28 PST): The Federal Government has approved an amount of Rs 90 million to Civil Aviation Authority(CAA) against the project of construction of new Gwadar International Airport.

* Balochistan AG tells court that Pakistani experts examining feasibility report ISLAMABAD: Balochistan Advocate General (AG), Salahuddin Mengal, informed the apex court on Monday that the provincial government would not renew the exploration licence of Tethyan Copper Company (TCC) until it fulfilled all the terms and conditions of the contract.

ISLAMABAD, Jan 31: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) and the Islamabad Electric Supply Company (Iesco) are engaged in a blame game over land encroachment in the capital, holding each other responsible for the crisis.

In December 2010 Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao visited Pakistan. The objective was to boost trade and investment in Pakistan. Before his visit to Pakistan, he was in India. Mr Wen said that he will seek to reassure Islamabad that they remain important allies, despite China’s improving ties with India.

ISLAMABAD, Jan 22: As many as 25 members of the 100-seat Senate have decided to become party in the Supreme Court case on the issue of Reko Diq copper-gold mines of Balochistan.

ISLAMABAD (APP) – The Central Development Working Party (CDWP) is likely to approve about five dozen development projects worth billions of rupees with special focus on the development of Balochistan province for which 26 development schemes would be given approval.

KARACHI: As the Reko Diq case unfolds in the Supreme Court of Pakistan and the media, there is a tangible fear that the short-sightedness of powers that be will squander an opportunity that could spell an economic turnaround for the country.

QUETTA:  Oman has agreed to release a grant of $44 million it had announced 10 years ago for launching development projects in Balochistan, including the construction of an international airport in Gwadar.

KARACHI, Jan 14: Ten of the 54 falcons caught by the Coast Guards near Jiwani late on Thursday were set free near Gwadar, some 600 kilometres from here, on Friday evening, a Balochistan wildlife official told Dawn, adding that one falcon had died.

Sino-Indian rivalry in the Indian Ocean and India’s naval cooperation with the US draw the world’s attention. But quietly, out of sight, a contest has been building in the Arabian Sea centred between two ports, one based in Pakistan and the other in Iran.

Pak-China relationship is an example of unprecedented and time-tested friendship. In the bi-lateral relationship of nations, there have been very less occasions once such a long-standing friendship has continued without having an iota of misunderstanding for so long.

Talking to journalists the other day, the Balochistan Chief Minister, Nawab Aslam Raisani, made a strong plea for using the Gwadar Port for Afghan Transit Trade. He said that he had asked the ‘relevant authorities’ to supply fuel to the Nato forces in Afghanistan through this port, and that the provincial government is ready to[…]

(January 09, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian)There is a need for the US to pay more attention to Balochistan as part of its Af-Pak strategy in order to pacify the Pashtun militancy encouraged by Al Qaeda and the Talibans operating in the Pashtun belt on both sides of the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.

QUETTA: The Balochistan High Court (BHC) asked the provincial government on Friday to explain how it can lease hundreds of acres of land to UAE nationals for bird hunting and restrained it from taking any further steps in this regard.