Salman Rafi Sheikh is assistant professor of politics at the Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences of Lahore University of Management Sciences and the author of "The Genesis of Baloch Nationalism: Politics and Ethnicity in Pakistan, 1947-1977."
For years, the Pakistani government has said that the port of Gwadar is in the process of being transformed by foreign investors into the Arabian Sea equivalent of Singapore, Dubai or Shenzhen.