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Abid Hussain

Pakistan’s Gwadar port attacked, eight armed fighters killed

Gwadar Port is part of the $62bn China-Pakistan Economic Corridor project [Nadeem Khawer/EPA]

Islamabad, Pakistan — Pakistan’s security forces foiled a major attack in Gwadar, a port city in the southwestern province of Balochistan, when eight armed fighters were killed on Wednesday when they tried to enter the Gwadar Port Authority complex.

The facility is a centrepiece of the multibillion-dollar China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), Pakistan’s most ambitious infrastructure and investment project in recent years.

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