Gwadar Port holds the potential to generate over $850 million annually through value-added seafood and date exports, Maritime Minister Muhammad Junaid Anwar Chaudhry said Friday. The minister made these remarks during a high-level meeting focused on operationalising the port, according to a statement from the Ministry of Maritime Affairs. Gwadar Port, located strategically near the […]
Gwadar port
Pakistan’s various sectors ready to receive CPEC benefits
ISLAMABAD: Economic experts claimed that Pakistan’s various sectors are ready to receive maximum benefits from China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project. According to political economists, many sectors will benefit from the project. In addition to the economic corridor, CPEC in Pakistan will include energy projects, infrastructure development, industrialization, and the expansion and improvement of Gwadar Port. […]
Chairman CPEC Authority Asim Bajwa reviews progress on CPEC’s projects in Gwadar
QUETTA: Chairman of China-Pak Economic Corridor (CPEC) Authority Lieutenant General (retd) Asim Saleem Bajwa arrived in c on a one-day visit to review various projects progress under CPEC on Monday. He said that Gwadar port had been made fully operational. The online bookings could be made to deliver goods from Hayab Gwadar Port goods, saying […]
Bajwa says Gwadar’s port, free zone to generate $10bn annual economic activity
GWADAR: CPEC Authority Chairman Asim Saleem Bajwa on Monday said that the Gwadar Port and the Gwadar Free Zone would generate economic activities of around $10 billion per annum besides creating thousands of new jobs after becoming fully operational. “Soon after completion of the Gwadar Free Zone, a lot of manufacturing and trading activities will […]
An ominous narrative
It would seem that the United States president’s resolve to withdraw American forces from Afghanistan by December 2018 has been frustrated by the Pentagon and Langley by persuading the president to avoid a dangerous power vacuum in Afghanistan. The fact is the American design to shift the battlefield to Pakistan has been defeated by Pakistan’s […]