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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[…]
LAHORE: Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) has assured SINO Hydro, a Chinese company, which is constructing the Gomal Zam Dam, that foolproof security arrangements have been made for its technical staff.
The National Highway Authority (NHA) has been improving and developing cross border road links for international bilateral trade and connecting it with the Asian Highway Network while the Frontier Works Organisation (FWO) is uplifting Muzaffarabad-occupied Srinagar road links on strategic reasons. The NHA chairman Major General Furrukh Javed disclosed this in his one-day visit to[…]
Real estate agents have urged the Gwadar Development Authority (GDA) to maintain proper record of sale and purchase of residential, commercial and industrial plots in every scheme under its control so as to protect interests of investors, apart from avoiding any scam. According to them, various developers have launched their housing schemes under different names[…]
LAHORE: Pakistan Railways will be made a state corporation from the next fiscal year like the Water and Power Development Authority and the Pakistan Telecommunications Company Limited, Railways Minister Mian Shamim Haider told reporters on Friday.
President General Pervez Musharraf said here on Thursday that elements trying to sabotage the country’s peaceful atmosphere and creating trouble would be crushed.
All societies are stratified, both vertically and horizontally. Vertical stratification — a necessary evil — is a product of unequal distribution of wealth and education resulting in an ‘upper class’ a ‘lower class’ and sometimes a middle class.
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali has directed the Ministry of Railways to speed up work on the Chaman-Kandahar railway line and connect the port city of Gwadar to the railway network.
QUETTA: President Pervez Musharaf will arrive in Balochistan’s capital on a two-day visit on Friday. President Musharraf will open a gas pipeline project and meet people from different walks of life. Security has been stepped up in Quetta in the wake of President Musharraf’s visit.
QUETTA: First phase of Gwadar port has been completed before stipulated time for anchorage of heavy vessels.In an impressive ceremony, anchorage of 70-thousand heavy ship was ensured under the supervision of Chinese engineers at already prepared berth. Fire works was displayed to celebrate the occasion.
QUETTA: Three powerful explosions jolted the port city of Gwadar in Balochistan late Sunday. Police said that no damage was reported so far. The three blasts were reported between 10:30 pm and 11:45 pm. One device exploded in Fish Harbour colony and other two went off near a telephone exchange and post office. Police said[…]
ISLAMABAD China on Saturday reiterated that its engineers would not halt work on the Gwadar project, despite a recent terrorist act in which three Chinese engineers were killed.
ISLAMABAD: Communication Secretary Iftikhar Rashid on Saturday said the amount of Gwadar Deep Sea Port’s royalty to Balochistan will be decided by the National Finance Commission but only after the port becomes operational.
ISLAMABAD: The government is making efforts to construct a railway track up to Gwadar by 2007 which would enhance the port’s performance, said Railways Minister Ghaus Bux Mehar on Sunday. “The feasibility study is being completed to connect the under-construction Gwadar port with the main rail network,” said Mr Mehar. He said that the Pakistan[…]
ISLAMABAD: President General Pervez Musharraf on Wednesday directed the Finance Ministry to ensure the timely release of funds for the completion of 18 mega projects in various sectors of the economy.
