QUETTA Balochistan Chief Minister Nawab Aslam Raisani has offered land free of charge in Gwadar to Central Asian states and other neighbouring countries for setting up consulates.
According to an official handout, the chief minister held meetings with envoys to different Central Asia states and trade representatives in Islamabad on Friday.
He invited the diplomats to Quetta for a briefing on investment opportunities in the port city so that shipping companies of Asia, Europe, Far East and other regions could start transit trade through the Gwadar port.

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