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Gwadar came in the focus of attention after the Kargil War when Pakistan felt the need of having a military naval port and the Karachi-Gwadar Road (Coastal Highway) was built for defence purposes. [4] For most of its history, Gwadar was a small to medium-sized settlement with an economy largely based on artisanal fishing.
The Gwadar Purchase or Pakistani acquisition of Omani Gwadar (Urdu: گوادر کا حصول, lit. 'Acquisition of Gwadar') was the acquisition of the territory of Gwadar by Pakistan from the Sultanate of Oman in 1958.
Gwadar Port is located in southwestern Pakistan near the Iranian border. Gwadar Port is situated on the shores of the Arabian Sea in the city of Gwadar, located in the Pakistani province of Balochistan. The port is located 533 km from Pakistan's largest city, Karachi, and is approximately 120 km from the Iranian border.
Gwadar was a part of Oman. Gwadar District has a 600 kilometres (370 mi) long coastline along the Gulf of Oman of the Arabian Sea.The district located in the coastal region on the Arabian Sea, south-west of the Quetta City, the provincial capital of Balochistan, District Lasbela is in the east and Kech and Awaran Districts are in the north and sharing its boundaries in the west with Iran It ...
The New Gwadar International Airport (NGIA) was built to replace the airport and was opened on 14 October 2024 in a ceremony led by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Chinese Premier Li Qiang. [7] Occupying 4,300 acres (17 km 2 ) of land, it is located in Gurandani, 26 km north-east of the existing airport in Gwadar on the south-western Arabian ...
The Gwadar Shipyard is a planned shipbuilding and repair facility located in Gwadar, a port city in Balochistan, Pakistan.The project is a joint venture between the national and regional governments of Pakistan, formalized through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed in February 2021.
Pakistani security forces Wednesday killed at least eight insurgents as they repulsed an attack by a separatist group on a sprawling government building outside the Chinese-funded Gwadar port in ...
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