According to a report in The Nation, Pakistan has decided to export the Chinese co-developed aircraft, the JF-17 Thunder by sometime next year. The export of the aircraft is part of greater push to increase defense exports including Pakistani ordnance and Pakistani-built helicopters, Minister of Defense for Production Rana Tanveer said while briefing the press. Various […]
A half hour after a severe Pakistani earthquake, residents of Gwadar noticed a strange land-mass barely one kilometer off the coast. Nasa’s Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite recently confirmed the creation of the new island off Pakistan’s Gwadar coastline after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck northwest Pakistan on 24 September 2013, killing at least 328 and […]
We all heard the news back in February of China taking control of Pakistan’s Gwadar port after issues operating under the Port of Singapore Authority. And now last month, the Pakistan Navy agreed to vacate hundreds of acres of land at the port. By turning the land back over to the control of the Gwadar Port […]
As of 18FEB13, China took control of Pakistan’s Gwadar port after problems operating under the previous administrator, the Port of Singapore Authority. In a typical fashion, threat assessments about the ports potential use have been growing. Although many authoritative analysis have been reiterated in the press including the ubiquitous ”string of pearls” analogy, the likelihood that Gwadar […]
