Larkana dry port project in limbo.

LARKANA -- Dry port established during the regime of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto has been rendered dysfunctional by the relevant authorities and the government has failed to revive it, despite it was formally inaugurated by the then president Asif Ali Zardari in 2010. Railway authorities in the past adopted wrong and discriminated policies due to which rent was even charged for transporting empty containers from the business community due to which not a single container was loaded here, and finally the dry port was closed by Nawaz Sharif government a i# s€ u c4t constituted the particular property, the existence of the particular property meant that section 579E(1)(b)(iv) of the Corporations Act was satisfied.al business community prefers to use road transport. Old sheds of the dry port have become dangerous. It doors and windows have already been stolen and its buildings left unattended, providing a chance to habitual land grabbers to occupy them. Large number of cattle heads

can be seen there, while a few buildings have become ideal hangouts for drug addicts who have also encroached upon them as well. Four million tons of rice is annually produced in Larkana and in areas of Northern Balochistan and 80% of them are...

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