The mystery £190,000,000 airport with no passengers and no planes

Pakistan’s newest and most expensive airport has no passengers and no planes, and no one seems to know when New Gwadar International Airport will open for business.

Located in the coastal city of Gwadar, on the shores of the Arabian Sea, the airport has been entirely financed by China to an estimated cost of £190 million.

Over the past decade, China has poured billions into Pakistan’s Balochistan region, connecting its western Xinjiang province with the Arabian Sea, a route known as the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (or CPEC).

While authorities have hailed it as transformational, there is little evidence of change in Gwadar.

The…