The fencing project, if and when completed, will cut off the heart of Gwadar city. China, which is worried about the safety of its men and machines stationed at the strategic Gwadar port, has ...

Residents of Gwadar protest against the fence barrier, May 2024, Credit: Baloch Yakjehti Committee. In early May, residents of Gwadar blocked the main coastal highway that connects the Pakistani ...

The fencing around the city of Gwadar has been a subject of controversy and concern, particularly among some Baloch groups who see it as part of broader issues related to land rights, ...

GWADAR, Pakistan (AP) — There was a time when few people in the coastal Pakistani city of Gwadar understood what climate change was. After a decade of extreme weather, many more do.

Fencing of Gwadar was perceived as turning the commercially important area into a military garrison and denying the common people access to the city. Baloch Yakjethi Committee ...

There was a time when few people in the coastal Pakistani city of Gwadar understood what climate change was. After a decade of extreme weather, many more do. Rain battered Gwadar for almost 30 ...

So, fencing Gwadar city wasn’t the only issue for its residents, rather in December 2021, Maulana Hidayat-ur-Rehman, (Balochistan general secretary of Jamaat-i-Islami) ...

Mahrang Baloch, a Balochistan-based activist, said on Saturday that the fence around Gwadar was not merely physical but had been metaphorically erected ever since the initiation of mega projects ...

Gwadar’s fishing community is also hurting. Catches are smaller, native fish are disappearing, and migration patterns and fishing seasons have changed, said Ahmed and Rahim.

In late February, a flash flood hit Gwadar, a port city on Pakistan’s southwestern coast in Balochistan province. The 183 millimeters (7.2 inches) of rain that fell in 30 hours was double what ...

GWADAR, Pakistan (AP) — There was a time when few people in the coastal Pakistani city of Gwadar understood what climate change was. After a decade of extreme weather, many more do.

The sea, once a blessing for Gwadar’s fishing and domestic tourism sectors, has become an existential threat to lives and livelihoods. Warming oceans mean bigger and more powerful waves, and ...