Balochistan Updates

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Jam Kamal Khan

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A step forward....making all Govt Girls and Boys colleges Balochistan as Degree colleges....Not only this, but an ongoing project to enhance all facilities in them too. #EmergingBalochistan

11:37 AM · Dec 7, 2020·Twitter for Android

 

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On 8 December, 22,000 tons of DAP fertilizer arrived and will be unloaded, bagged and trucked to Afghanistan in Gwadar. Under the epidemic situation, it provides a rare business opportunity for local customs clearance, labor service and logistics companies!

 

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Fibre optic cable laid in Gwadar

EVP says PTCL has taken initiatives to improve internet connectivity in industrial areas

December 18, 2020


KARACHI: A new fibre optic cable has been laid in Gwadar which is good news for future investors, said Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) Executive Vice President Abdul Zahir Achakzai.

He was speaking at a meeting with industrialists at the Korangi Association of Trade and Industry (KATI) on Thursday.

On the international front, the Gwadar city plays a pivotal role under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and by extension under the Silk Road initiative of China. At the local level, the port city is important for Balochistan as well as the rest of Pakistan.


CPEC’s commercial route runs from Gwadar to western China. The corridor, now worth over $60 billion, needs faster internet connectivity to run its large-scale operations smoothly.

Achakzai added that the company had taken several initiatives to improve internet connectivity in industrial areas as it acknowledged the importance of communication infrastructure. “We have already taken a number of measures to improve internet connectivity in Korangi along with the rest of the city,” he said.

Speaking on the occasion, KATI President Saleemuz Zaman said internet connectivity, speed and efficiency had emerged as the new standard and prerequisite for industrialisation and business growth.

Highlighting that PTCL had enhanced its services, Zaman voiced hope that it would reach on a par with communication standards of modern times.

Talking about KATI, he said its first priority was its members and their facilitation in every possible way.
“We urge all the service providers in the area to build effective coordination with the Korangi Industrial and Trading Estate Development and Management Company (KITE-DMC) as many infrastructure projects are underway,” he said.

KITE-DMC Chairman and CEO Zubair Chhaya urged officials to establish a mechanism for better coordination between PTCL and KITE.

He assured them that PTCL would be consulted prior to any development work in the area to avoid any losses to both sides

 

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Iran, Pakistan open 2nd border crossing for trade surge

The Frontier Post
December 19, 2020


GABD: Iran and Pakistan have inaugurated the second official border crossing for the transfer of goods and passengers.

The border point opened during a ceremony on Saturday, with Iran’s Minister of Roads and Urban Development Mohammad Eslami and the Pakistani Minister for Defense Production Zubaida Jalal attending the event.

The gateway connects Rimadan, located in Dashtyari country of Iran’s southeastern Sistan and Baluchestan Province, with Pakistan’s Gabd.

The Rimadan border crossing has a capacity for exporting and importing goods and transporting Pakistani pilgrims and tourists.

The border’s 70-kilometer distance with Gwadar port also enables Pakistani citizens to reach Iran’s strategic Chabahar port, from where they can travel by plane or train to Iran’s religious cities and tourist sites.


The connection of the Rimadan border with Pakistan’s Karachi port would pave the way for linking China and Southeast Asian countries to Eastern Europe.

In an interview with IRNA news agency, Iran’s Ambassador to Pakistan Mohammad Ali Hosseini said there was only one crossing, Mirjaveh-Taftan, on the 900-kilometer border between the two neighboring states.

So, he added, Iranian and Pakistani officials decided to open two more border gateways, Rimadan-Gabd and Pishin-Mand.

The envoy also stressed that the inauguration of Rimdan-Gabd border point will increase economic and trade cooperation between Tehran and Islamabad, reduce smuggling and improve the livelihood of border residents as well as the security situation along the common frontier.

 

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A historic day for Pakistan & Iran as a new border crossing is established at Pakistani Gabd Post with Iran’s Rimdan post linking Gwadar with Chahbahar. This will lead to a revolution in cross border trade & border markets eliminating rampant smuggling.

 

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Gwadar Green House.
Under preparations

 

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Seven projects under way to promote tourism in coastal areas

Saleem Shahid
01 Jan 2021

The projects will attract not only tourists but also investors interested in investing in the coastal areas of the province. — AFP/File



QUETTA: The Balochistan government has launched seven projects to promote tourism in coastal areas of the province and work on these projects is in progress.

The projects will attract not only tourists but also investors interested in investing in the coastal areas of the province.

This was said in a briefing at a meeting held here on Thursday to discuss promotion of tourism, culture and archeology and development schemes launched at tourist sites in various areas of Balochistan.

The meeting was presided over by Chief Minister Jam Kamal Khan Alyani and attended by Adviser to the CM on tourism and culture Abdul Khaliq Hazara, Chief Secretary of Balochistan Capt (retd) Fazeel Asghar, Additional Chief Secretary Planning and Development Abdul Saboor Kakar and the secretary of culture and tourism.

The meeting was informed that a master plan had been prepared for promotion of tourism and culture and work on eco-tourism resorts was under way at seven places in the coastal areas of the province.

The participants were briefed about feasibility and construction of cultural complexes in different areas of the province at a cost of Rs50 million.

“Model beach parks will be established at Gadani, Kund Malir, Ormara, Pasni and Gwadar to provide maximum facilities to tourists,” the tourism secretary told the meeting, adding that the master plans for Ziarat and Shaban valleys had also been prepared.

Chief Minister Alyani said that tourism offices should be set up at divisional levels, tourism information centers should be opened on major highways and signs on tourist spots and culture should be installed on the highways.

He said that competitions in various fields of art should be organised across Balochistan.
Referring to the importance of archeological sites in the province, the chief minister said that concrete steps should be taken by the departments concerned for their protection and discovering more such sites.

He pointed out that Balochistan already had Mehrgarh archeological site which belonged to a seven thousand years old civilization.

He said that promotion of tourism, arts and culture would highlight the positive image of Balochistan.

Published in Dawn, January 1st, 2021

 

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𝗦𝘂𝗿𝗯𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗿 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗲 𝗢𝘀𝗺𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘀 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘁 Gwadar

To meet the shortage of drinking water in Surbandar in District Gwadar, 0.2 MGD RO desalination plant was established by FWO in June 2018. So far, 35.5 million gallons water has been produced and delivered to the locals of Surbanda

 

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Development of Gwadar Port continues to advance

By China Economic Net

by Cheng Xizhong

On January 6, President of Pakistan Dr. Arif Alvi visited Gwadar and underlined the need to utilize Gwadar Port free zone area for transit trade with regional countries including Afghanistan.

At a briefing on progress work about the master plan of Gwadar City and operationalization of Gwadar Port, the president said that the speedy flow of traffic at Gwadar Port must be ensured. He urged the authorities to accelerate development activities and remove all hindrances in this regard through consensus-building and consultation with the relevant stakeholders. He particularly thanked the Chinese Government for constructing state-of-the-art China Business Centre (CBC) in Gwadar.

President Dr. Arif Alvi’s visit has fully demonstrated that the Pakistani leadership attaches great importance to continuously promoting the construction of Gwadar Port, a shining pearl of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).
To speed up the construction of the related projects in Gwadar Port, relevant departments of China and Pakistan held the fifth meeting of the Joint Working Group (JWG) through video link on November 30, 2020, in which both sides reviewed progress on projects related to Gwadar Port, road and air infrastructure, provision of water supply and sanitation facilities.

Since early 2020, China and Pakistan have jointly strived to overcome the impact of novel coronavirus pneumonia and promote the stable and healthy construction and operation of the series projects in Gwadar.

Relevant Chinese enterprises have undertaken an enormous amount of work in the fields of joint operations against the pandemic and social livelihood, and won wide acclaim and appreciation from all walks of life in Gwadar. Gwadar Port has become a bright spot of successfully balancing pandemic prevention and project construction during the CPEC development in 2020.

Now in Gwadar Port, five container cranes have been added. A stack yard of 100,000 square meters has been built. The seawater desalination equipment and container scanning devices have been added, and the port function has been fully restored. At the moment, the terminal can accommodate two 50,000 DWT freighters at the same time, and can handle bulk cargo, container and roll on-roll off cargo, with full operation capacity.

The development of Gwadar Port is forcefully driving the economic development of Balochistan and even Pakistan as a whole. Moreover, Gwadar Port will become the nearest sea port for Afghanistan, Tajikistan and other Central Asian inland countries, and become a regional logistics and shipping center. Gwadar Port will also become an important logistics, trade, emerging industries, science and technology, culture and education center in southwest Pakistan.

Cheng Xizhong, Visiting Professor at Southwest University of Political Science and Law，Senior Fellow of the Charhar Institute, former Defense Attache in South Asian countries.

 

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On 8 December, 22,000 tons of DAP fertilizer arrived and will be unloaded, bagged and trucked to Afghanistan in Gwadar. Under the epidemic situation, it provides a rare business opportunity for local customs clearance, labor service and logistics companies!


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We need to connect gawadar to afghanistan ASAP to declog the karachi port which is clogged
We also need to build another port may be near karachi

 

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Vessels of 2021 arrived at Gwadar port. Welcome


1---- LPG vessel GAS ARMA ETA, weighted 1.6K tones, arrived at Gwadar Port

2 ---- Afghan Transit DAP vessel BLUE BALESTIER ETA, weighted 18K tones, arrived at 11:30.