Gwadar port seen as economically unfeasible

Pakistan’s game-changer corridor has turned into a ghost route, more than a decade after the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) was announced as the project that would transform Pakistan’s fortunes. Gwadar port is economically unfeasible, and could only become viable if it were connected to Lokandi and Helmand in Afghanistan and made an exclusive Afghan transit corridor, said economist Dr Kaiser Bengali. Until then, Gwadar cannot be economically viable. But given the current situation with Afghanistan, the country no longer wants to import anything through Pakistan. Afghanistan now prefers Chabahar, and the railway link between Chabahar and Afghanistan is complete. According to Dr Bengali, China’s motives in Gwadar are not economic but military, as per a report. 

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