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Why Gwadar Matters in the Next Decade
Gwadar sits at a crossroads that most of the world has not yet looked at carefully. A deepwater port at the mouth of the Persian Gulf, adjacent to one of the most significant trade corridors being constructed in the 21st century—its trajectory over the next ten years will shape logistics, regional power, and the everyday lives of hundreds of thousands of people.
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What's Coming to Gwadar: Access, Energy, and Identity
Three forces are converging on Gwadar simultaneously—and understanding how they interact is essential to understanding what the city will look like in five years. Access, in the form of new roads and a functioning airport. Energy, in the form of power plants that are finally coming online. And identity, which no infrastructure project can manufacture but every city must build for itself.
10 min readLife Along the Makran Coast
Before Gwadar became a geopolitical talking point, it was a fishing town. Before the port cranes, before the airport terminal, before the fiber optic cables running north toward China—there were families who had lived on this coastline for generations, pulling a living from one of the most productive fishing grounds in the Arabian Sea. Some of them still are.
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