Karachi situation bolsters Lahore real estate

[hanibal]

Re: Karachi situation bolsters Lahore real estate

@DD

SOme ex-PIA officials from Karachi tell me that it was PIA which was responsible for shunning other airlines from Karachi airport. They thought they will capture the business on other airlines, but in the end PIA never got that business, it also ruined the business brought by other airlines.

As for Gawadar, i have heard about emirates interest in Gawadar but i dont see how Gawadar will provide competition to Dubai, DUbai caters to imports of Gulf region, Gawadar will not take it away. On the other hand Chinese want to develop Gawadar but americans are worried about increased chinese presence there.

I am not sure about PIA, i wrote what i heard…

But as for Gawadar, you need to see the location of Dubai Port, and no it is not only for local imports and exports, to reach Dubai port, the ships need 2/3 days / voyage and have to cross the straights of Hurmaz, whereas, Gawadar, Duqm and Salalah ( the last two in Oman) are in open seas and are close to trade route and it would save them at least 1.5 day/voyage..

In the Mush’s time, it was found that UAE intelligence and govt had their hands in the insurgency in the Balochistan, it was the same time when Gawadar Port was about to be operative.. the Mushy govt issued some warnings and in return Emariti Govt fired few of it high ranking officials and that was all about it… these attacks in those time did not only effected operations at Gawadar but also forced Saudi+Kuwait to roll-back the refinery project somewhere near to Hub area.