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Persian Gulf view:
House hunting and geopolitics in Baluchistan
By Shahan Mufti
Shahan Mufti is a freelance writer based in Brooklyn. He teaches at the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at New York University.
In an office high above the smoke-clogged avenues of Lahore, a real estate broker unveiled to me a city of dreams. “You’re not too late for this,” he murmured, as the sound of traffic horns seeped through the glass wall behind him. He leaned forward in his leather chair, swiveled his laptop to face me, and in silence I soaked up the images on the screen. Miles of milky-white beaches without a single footprint; silhouettes of wooden fishing boats at sea; the opulent lobby of a five-star hotel; an ATM; wide, barren avenues; a shipyard, and a skyline thick with cranes at work. This was Gwadar, 900 miles to the southwest, a fishing town of 50,000 people that lately had emerged as the nation’s premier real estate destination.
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