Foreign Correspondence

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Baluchistan is the home of Gawdar port, a place we have been trying to get our hands on for a long time. This is another case where the masses with legitimate complaints are pawns in a much larger game. The United States is causing some of the dissention in Baluchistan – keep out the Chinese and border Iran.

Bush is planning to replace Pakistan’s Musharraf with US candidate, Benazir Bhutto, and thus attempt to insure that not only any plans for a permanent Chinese naval base in Gawdar Port near the Strait of Hormuz are curtailed or canned but that China does not have an energy corridor through Pakistan. #msg-6055889

Writing for the New York Times, Nayan Chanda, former editor of Far Eastern Economic Review, says, "Port's projected size and strategic location have sent ripples of anxiety through Washington, Tokyo and New Delhi about the potential establishment of a permanent Chinese naval presence near the Strait of Hormuz, through which 40 per cent of the world's oil passes.
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This sounds like Pakistan and China consider the US to be behind the deaths of the three Chinese engineers.

Talking about the deaths of three Chinese engineers, who were murdered in Hub, he said, “They targeted them to sabotage Pakistan’s progress and drive a wedge between the two countries.”

Pakistan will stand by China against US ‘siege’, says Rashid
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