The chairman of the Gwadar Port Authority hopes billions of dollars in Chinese investment will transform a dusty provincial town in southwestern Pakistan into a glitzy, 21st-century port.
Politicians from two impoverished Pakistani provinces have opposed alleged changes to a major road and rail network linking China to the Arabian Sea through Pakistan.
A deepening blood feud between the clan of a powerful Afghan provincial security chief and the Taliban has resulted in a series of assassinations in southwestern Pakistan near the Afghan border.
