QUETTA: Balochistan Chief Minister Jam Kamal Khan has said that the provincial government has approved and released the new Gwadar Master Plan.

In a Twitter posting the other day, the chief minister said the master plan was not approved in Islamabad or Quetta but by the governing body of the Gwadar Development Authority which met in Gwadar recently.

It may be mentioned that the master plan was pending approval for a long time.

Published in Dawn, September 24th, 2019

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