QUETTA  : 

Balochistan Chief Minister Jam Kamal on Sunday inaugurated the Gwadar Water Treatment Plant and also ordered expansion of the district headquarters (DHQ) hospital with addition of 50 beds.

During his visit to the port city which is also terminal point of the multi-billion dollar China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), the CM was briefed on functions of the plant completed at a cost of Rs300 million.

Gwadar Development Authority (GDA) Director General Sajjad Baloch said that on directives of the CM the water treatment plant was completed in short time, adding that its pipeline would also be completed in the next 10 days. “That plant would be able to provide water to the residents of Gwadar for agricultural and domestic use,” Baloch said.