Wine stores shut in CPEC hub Gwadar

Quetta: The Directorate General Excise, Taxation and Anti-Narcotics in Balochistan has ordered the closure of all wine stores in Gwadar, the port city on the southwestern coast of the province and a hub of the multi-billion-dollar China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).

Balochistan Provincial Minister for Planning and Development Zahoor Ahmed Buledi tweeted a notification issued by the directorate’s South Zone.

“The undersigned is pleased to close all wine stores in Gwadar with immediate effect till further orders due to the prevailing law & order situations in Gwadar,” read the notification.

Buledi said that the development comes after negotiations with cleric Maulana Hidayatur Rehman Baloch, the secretary general of Jamaat-e-Islami’s Balochistan chapter.