this was not any significant issue in the past and there is no much but many printed media including weekly zindagi reported when Karachi was the capital of Pakistan. Iran does not agree with Oman to sell gwadar to india but did not object selling it to Pakistan.
you can see from indian media, they too agree that Gwadar was offered to them too.
now inda cry for not giving a higher bid to oman. In approx 3 million$ gwadar was back to pak.
even if india would have got gwadar it could not held after the wars with pakistan.
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After independence, according to the diplomatic community grapevine, Gwadar was administered by India on behalf of the Sultan of Oman as the two countries enjoyed excellent relations. When the Khan of Kalat asked the Sultan to return Gwadar to Pakistan, reportedly, the Sultan first offered it to India, but India declined to accept the gift.
This offer was probably made verbally. While senior diplomats confirm that such an offer was made, its authenticity could not been verified independently. Oman then sold Gwadar to Pakistan for $3 million on September 8, 1958. Since December 1958, it has been an integral part of the Balochistan province of Pakistan.
Whether the government of independent India declined to accept the deep water port in keeping with its policy of shunning imperial inheritances, or due to the lack of contiguity and the inability to defend it, or simply because of a lack of appreciation of its potential, will not be known till the diplomats concerned decide to write their memoirs.
India would have had not only an enclave on Pakistan’s Makran coast, but also a deep water port. In hindsight, not accepting the priceless gift from the Sultan of Oman was a huge mistake at par with the long list of post-independence strategic blunders.
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