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Gwadar holds potential to become the next Dubai, British Newspaper reports

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Gwadar is a significant asset for Pakistan and China and holds the potential to become the next Dubai in future, a British newspaper predicted, adding that the sea port would build alliance between Pakistan and China that could up-end the entire balance of power in the Indian Ocean.

The report came after citing the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) plan, which iterated that the bilateral infrastructure and planning contract will prove beneficial to the neighboring countries, Telegraph published on Saturday.

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According to the source, Pakistan faced an imminent blackout which could effectively be solved with a genuine plan to fix the discrepancies in delivery and communication of the difference in the need and provision of electricity resources.

“The demand and supply gap was widening by the day and there was not a single power station under construction,” the article mentions.

The newspaper drew envisage that the Gwadar East-Bay Expressway will do good as the economic corridor backs Pakistan in its lack of $30 to 35 billion to proceed such working.

“We calculated we needed $30 to 35 billion to fix it, and there was no way Pakistan could generate that kind of money. That’s what prompted us towards the China Pakistan Economic Corridor,” Governor of Sindh, Muhammed Zubair, also one of the architects of the scheme, told The Telegraph.

The article speaks about the China-Pakistan handshake over the entire national economy, where China has committed $62 billion to the initiative in plowing a fine infrastructure plan for the seaport to turn it into a mega transporter to the European countries.

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The Telegraphs has hinted at the possibility that CPEC will turn out to raise a massive opportunity in changing the balance of power in Asia; keeping that China is keen to maintain its position among countries neighboring the Arabian Sea – including the setting up of its splinter ports in Myanmar and Sri Lanka to ensure the safety of freight ships.

“The deal goes something like this: Pakistan gets massive and much needed infrastructure investment while China gets access to warm water port 350 miles from the Straits of Hormuz - a key part of its “one belt one road” initiative to develop commercial logistics links with Europe.”

“So I would not question that they have far more objectives than a win-win for China and Pakistan in economic terms. They want to compete with the United States. This gives them the security leverage that they desperately need,” the Governor added who advised the government on tax and economic reform.

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We are 30 years from Gwadar resembling a normal city. It will take time.
 
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10 years is enough, this is China's speed

China is providing the activity, its up to Pakistan and Gwadar to capitalize and create more activity from it. This will take time. Gwadar is remote and need a lot of work on infrastructure, resorts and meaningful big corps to be based there.
You don't get a developed port city just like that the locals have to trade too.
 
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I wish best of luck to Pakistan for its port. But why compare it to Dubai and not Singapore? Wasn't Dubai debt ridden and had to be bailed out by Abu Dhabi?
 
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There can be a great change in 30 years. In my city, 30 years ago, the per capita GDP was only $120. It's $24000 now, and it's changing quickly.
 
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It can be done, Just need a honest leadership, not the same corrupt rotten eggs, Gwadar's beaches and sand dunes, jeep safari's has all the ingredients of UAE.
 
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I wish best of luck to Pakistan for its port. But why compare it to Dubai and not Singapore? Wasn't Dubai debt ridden and had to be bailed out by Abu Dhabi?

Yes, Dubai was indeed debt ridden and needed financial bailout from Abu Dhabi but that was because they were outspending their income and had grossly overestimated and inflated the balloon of their real estate; the crash of 2008 and crunch period thereafter was the route cause.

However, Dubai is still the financial capital of the world, and is an economic powerhouse and hub of massive financial transactions. Dubai, is still a financial force to be reckoned with, once you put behind the expected ups and downs.
 
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We are 30 years from Gwadar resembling a normal city. It will take time.

30 years ago my Father's village had only a dirt road connected to closest city with one bus a day, only one middle school, no electricity, no gas, one general store for life's very essentail products. It use to take us 8 hours from Pindi to get there. Today it is a hustling bustling small city, with middle school, high school for boys and one for girls, grade 12 college for boys and one for girls, you can travel to pindi in 3 hours, a big market where you can find anything you can find in Pindi, pizza house and other restaurants....you may not notice but things improve big time in 30 years.
 
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