With no passengers and no planes, Pakistan’s newest and most expensive airport is a bit of a mystery. Entirely financed by China to the tune of $240 million, it’s anyone’s guess when New Gwadar International Airport will open for business.
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Baluchistan – Heartbeat of Pakistan
Baluchistan is the largest province of Pakistan by area and of great strategic importance, however, despite its vast natural resources including rare earth metals, and strategic location, Baluchistan remains one of the most underdeveloped provinces of Pakistan,
Indian and Tibetan wolf populations in Pakistan are rapidly declining, with only a few hundred individuals left.
Maulana Fazlur Rehman warned that if Balochistan's districts declared independence, the UN could potentially recognise their sovereignty, leading to Pakistan's fragmentation.
Fully funded by China, the airport was completed in October 2024 in the coastal city of Gwadar but has yet to open, leaving many to wonder who it was truly built for.
Militant violence declined in Balochistan after a 2014 government counterinsurgency and plateaued toward the end of that decade, according to Pakistan Institute for Conflict and Security Studies.
A Pakistani separatist group has claimed responsibility for the killing of seven bus passengers earlier this week
Officials say militants armed with guns have intercepted several passenger buses on a highway in the restive southwestern Pakistan and killed seven people.
The BLA has also targeted Chinese projects in the region, arguing that foreigners are exploiting resource-rich Balochistan while the impoverished residents are left behind. Pakistan Prime Minister ...
Separatist gunmen shot dead seven passengers on a Lahore-bound bus in southwestern Pakistan's Balochistan province on Tuesday after forcing them off the vehicle and checking their identity documents,
Pakistan Navy ships berth at Gwadar port in the coastal city Gwadar, in the southwest Pakistani province of Balochistan, Jan. 15, 2025. Credit: AP/Anjum Naveed Members of Pakistan’s ethnic ...