Bro I remember in 2016 when I first started looking at Pakistani stuff online I used to see Faujeet troll farms spam how Gwadar was gonna be "China's Bahrain"
Even today faujeets post promos from Gwadar as if some miracle is going to happen and Pakistan will be supapowa.
Faujeets think that destroying farmland and building 6 lane roads is development. They have no idea how these things destroy and segregate cities and then are shocked with the local population rise up and protest.
They literally think Dubai is some masterpiece, when most urban planners regard it as a one of the WORST designed cities in the world.
Gwadar as a city is geographically gifted. It as a central dense core and is walkable. It has direct connection to the sea/beach. Why would you destroy that is beyond me….in western cities they are actively taking down expressways built in cities, while in Pakistan we build them! If anything, the old city of Gwadar should be maintained and rebuilt along the lines of how Old City Lahore is being rebuilt. You can still have the dense core, with all modern amenities. That’s the perfect recipe!
Another bone of contention has been the disrespect to local culture. Gwadar Development Authority literally doesn’t know a language Balochi exists. Apparently they are also unaware that Urdu exists. Here’s what a typical road sign in Gwadar looks like now!
Notice how GDA knows how to write Chinese and English, but god forbid if our inferior languages are ever written. We are NOT WORTHY!
That being said, it appears the protests have worked to a certain extent. After more than 10 years of construction, GDA discovered that Gwadar was actually a fishing town before and had a local population!
The thing is Gwadar is actually in a very geo-strategic location. If handled correctly it could become the gateway to Central Asia as the Russians and Central Asians envisioned.
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It has unspoiled beaches and the weather is warm but never humid. Gwadar and the entire Marian Coast could become such a go to place….for sunbathing and sightseeing. But good luck trying to build anything like that when most of our society is upset about a woman showing her belly button in a film.
Meanwhile, this is one of the only deep sea ports that STILL doesn’t have a connection to the railway. How in the world do you expect to move cargo without a railway connected to your port.
This is why people in Gwadar are upset and I don’t blame them!
