Pakistan Navy has raised a special marine battalion to provide security to Chinese engineers and workers at the strategic Gwadar Port being developed by China under the $46 billion economic corridor p
Pakistan Navy has raised a special marine battalion to provide security to Chinese engineers and workers at the strategic Gwadar Port being developed by China under the $46 billion economic corridor project that will give the Communist giant access to the Arabian Sea.
The ambitious China-Pak-istan Economic Corridor project was launched last year to link western China to southern Pakistan through a network of roads, railways and pipelines. Under this, oil and gas would be sent from Gwadar Port to Kashgar city in northwestern China’s Xin-jiang Uygur autonomous region, using the shortest route for oil imports from the Middle East.
A spokesman of Pakistan Navy said that security of Chinese and the CPEC was focus of the newly-raised force. “Pakistan Navy has increased all-round surveillance at Gwadar Port with the commencement of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor project,” he said. He said a special Marine Battalion had been raised to provide security to Chinese engineers and experts visiting the Gwadar port.
