Financial Times Protests reveal anxieties about the true terms of massive infrastructure project An agreement between Pakistan and China stipulates that 91 per cent of the revenues from Gwadar port go to the port's Chinese operator © AFP June 14, 2018 12:23 pm by Adnan Aamir It is a scorching hot June day in Gwadar, a port city on the southwestern coast of Balochistan, and more than a dozen eight-year-old children have blocked a road by lying across it. Dressed in traditional shalwar kameez, the kids are protesting against a severe water shortage and long hours without electricity. The traffic is stopped for a while but then the children get up, rub the dust off their clothes and run towards the crowded markets. Balochistan, where I grew up and now work as a journalist, is the largest province of Pakistan by area, but the least populated. Sharing borders with Iran and Afghanistan, it is also the country’s least developed province: three out of four people live below
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