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A BRAND new international airport that cost £190million to build has been left to rot without a single plane ever taking off.
The New Gwadar International Airport has the capacity to serve 400,000 people – but its gates have not welcomed a single passenger yet.
Located in the coastal city of Gwadar in Pakistan, the ambitious airport was built by China in an attempt to revive the impoverished city around it.
However, since the construction works concluded in 2024, the airport has not been functional even for a single day.
Eerie pictures show the airport sitting empty without a single passenger.
One satellite image shows the empty runaways without any aircraft fleets stationed there.
Unlike other international airports – where thousands of people including staff, security and flyers buzz around the area – the Gwadar airport shows no signs of life.
At the moment, it is the biggest airport in Pakistan – built across an area of 4,300 acres.
It is said to be capable of handling the jumbo Airbus A380 aircraft and a combination of Boeing 737, and Boeing 747 for domestic as well as international routes.
But not a single plane has ever taken off from the airport.
It is understood that security concerns delayed the inauguration of the international airport.
There were fears the area’s mountains — and their proximity to the airport — could be the ideal launchpad for an attack.
Instead, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and his Chinese counterpart Li Qiang hosted a virtual ceremony.
The inaugural flight was off-limits to the media and public.
The airport is also a stark contrast to the impoverished and backward southwestern Balochistan province around it.
While authorities hailed it as transformational, there is scant evidence of change in Gwadar city, where a 400,000-passenger capacity airport isn’t a priority for the city’s 90,000 people.
Abdul Ghafoor Hoth, district president of the Balochistan Awami Party, said not a single resident of Gwadar was hired to work at the airport, “not even as a watchman.”
He added: “Forget the other jobs, how many Baloch people are at this port that was built for the Chinese communist party.”
For the past decade, China has poured money into Balochistan and Gwadar as part of a multibillion-dollar project that connects its western Xinjiang province with the Arabian Sea, called the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).
Experts fear that Chinese investment is a way to gain more military access in the area.
Azeem Khalid, an international relations expert who specializes in Pakistan-China ties, said: “This airport is not for Pakistan or Gwadar.
“It is for China, so they can have secure access for their citizens to Gwadar and Balochistan.”
Pakistan, keen to protect China’s investments, has stepped up its military footprint in Gwadar to combat dissent.
The city is a jumble of checkpoints, barbed wire, troops, barricades, and watchtowers.
Roads close at any given time, several days a week, to permit the safe passage of Chinese workers and Pakistani VIPs.
THE BBC has apologised over “missed opportunities” to deal with shamed DJ Tim Westwood amid a “sex assaults” probe.
A report into his alleged inappropriate behaviour during his time at the broadcaster has found there were “missed opportunities that might have led to action”.
It also admitted there were a “range of factors which ought to have alerted the BBC” and that Westwood may have presented a “risk to young women and girls”.
Westwood, 67, who stepped down from his show on Capital Xtra in April 2022, and left Radio 1 and Radio 1Xtra in 2013 after nearly 20 years, faces historical sexual abuse allegations from multiple women, and “strongly denies all allegations of inappropriate behaviour”.
The Metropolitan Police previously said it is investigating accusations of offences alleged to have happened between 1982 and 2016.
In her findings, the report’s author Gemma White KC said: “I have not found there to be significant BBC knowledge of allegations or concerns about sexual misconduct on Tim Westwood’s part.
“However, the overview from which I have benefited as a result of having conducted this review demonstrates the clear need for a robust mechanism for the assessment of the risks presented by the engagement of particular individuals.
“There were, in my view, a range of factors which ought to have alerted the BBC to the possibility that Tim Westwood might present a risk to young women and girls.”
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