After a decade, govt wakes up to market Gwadar port

ISLAMABAD: The commercialisation of Gwadar Port, built more than a decade ago, remains a non-starter, turning the multi-billion-dollar infrastructure facility into a white elephant instead of becoming a transhipment hub.

This was the gist of a high-level meeting on the operationalisation of Gwadar Port called on the directives of the prime minister and presided over by Planning and Dev­elopment Minister Ahsan Iqbal, who blamed high-ups of the Ministry of Mari­time Affairs (MoMA) and National...