Gwadar waiting for the boom (new tourist hotspot)

[poolcleaner]

Yes some acceptable portions are part of state law and applicable for example lashes. Stonning to death or chopping off the wrist if caught in robbery etc ain't included in state law.

Do you get a choice of hand?

I only ask because I can only wank right handed but I wear my watch on me left.
The problem is my missus gave me the watch and while I don't really like it she'd get pissed a touch if I came home from Pakistan unable to wear her gift!

[machangezi]

Do you get a choice of hand?

If you get caught, I personally guarantee you'll get a choice.

[machangezi]

The problem is my missus gave me the watch and while I don't really like it she'd get pissed a touch if I came home from Pakistan unable to wear her gift!

This is what I call LOVE Poolie. You better be a smart arse during your stay in Pakland and don't get caught or misus would be very disappointed with you.

[poolcleaner]

The problem is my missus gave me the watch and while I don't really like it she'd get pissed a touch if I came home from Pakistan unable to wear her gift!

This is what I call LOVE Poolie. You better be a smart arse during your stay in Pakland and don't get caught or misus would be very disappointed with you.

Not so fast with the love bit Macha.
It's a toss up (hehe gedit) between the watch and the wank!

I make sure my missus is permanently dissappoited in me.
That way there's never any nasty surprises!

[machangezi]

I can feel it CMN's googling some shite about pakistan sharia law.

[Mid]

China Takes Control of Strategic Pakistani Port
SEBASTIAN ABBOT
February 19, 2013


Participants listen to a speech by Pakistan’s then president Pervez Musharraf during the opening of the Gwadar deep-sea port on the Arabian Sea on March 20, 2007.
(Photo: Reuters)

ISLAMABAD — China took over operational control of a strategic deep-water Pakistani seaport on Monday that could serve as a vital economic hub for Beijing and perhaps a key military outpost.

Control of Gwadar port on Pakistan’s southwestern coast was transferred to a state-owned Chinese company, China Overseas Ports Holding Company Ltd., in a signing ceremony in Islamabad that was broadcast on TV.

Gwadar will soon be a “hub of trade and commerce in the region,” Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari said at the ceremony. “It holds the key to bring together the countries of Central Asia” and will further improve Pakistan-China relations, he said.

China paid much of the US $250 million originally needed to construct the port, which was previously run by Port of Singapore Authority. It has been a commercial failure since it opened in 2007 because Pakistan never completed the road network to link Gwadar to the rest of the country.

The port on the Arabian Sea occupies a strategic location between South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. It lies near the Strait of Hormuz, gateway for about 20 percent of the world’s oil.

China’s interest is driven by concerns about energy security as it seeks to fuel its booming economy. It wants a place to anchor pipelines to secure oil and gas supplies from the Gulf. Beijing also believes that helping develop Pakistan will boost economic activity in its far western province of Xinjiang and dampen a simmering, low-intensity rebellion there.

Some experts view Gwadar as the westernmost link in the “string of pearls,” a line of ports from China to the Gulf that could facilitate expansion of the Chinese Navy in the Indian Ocean. That has sparked concern in both the US and India.

A senior Pakistani official previously told The Associated Press that Beijing has agreed to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to finish a 900-km road that would link the port with Pakistan’s north-south Indus Highway, facilitating overland transport from Gwadar to China. The Pakistani government was supposed to complete the road in 2012, but it is only 60 percent finished, said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to reporters.

It will still be a tough drive, passing along the Karakorum Highway that winds through the rugged mountains of northern Pakistan and then into Xinjiang Province via a border crossing point at an elevation of 4,693 meters. The path is often blocked by snow in winter.

Even so, the route will cut the overland distance from China’s western provinces to the sea in half, from about 4,000 km to China’s east coast, to just 2,000 km south to Gwadar.

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